US Patent Issued on March 25 for "Underground, sub-surface and surface monitoring technology and asynchronous distributed system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,285, issued on March 25.

"Underground, sub-surface and surface monitoring technology and asynchronous distributed system" was invented by John C. Bonardelli (Montreal) and Marc-Andre Larin (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data collection system able to provide in real-time sensor data and asynchronous sensor data is described. The data collection system comprises at least one tag device comprising a battery, a memory, a transceiver, a controller, and at least one sensor. The tag device being adapted for generating and transmitting a beacon signal at first intervals; and for storing the data in memory when no reception sign...