ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,764, issued on April 29.

"Foundation monitoring system" was invented by Thomas D. Selgas (Athens, Texas) and Antonio Savarese (Arlington, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention comprises a system for monitoring the angular movement of a structure's foundation, wall, beam and/or column with one or more monitoring devices in communication with either a local computing device (a hub) that displays the current angular deviation and direction from an initialized state, a remote server capable of generating a web page display of the current angular deviation and direction from an initialized state, or both. Additionally,...