ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,256, issued on July 1, was assigned to AADG INC. (New Haven, Conn.).

"Attack resistant, energy harvesting, and adaptable interactive panel" was invented by Carolyn Lacey (Valparaiso, Ind.) and Daniel Brian Glover (Franklin, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Interactive panels are used to display information to one or more users that are interacting with the interactive panels. One or more detection devices (e.g., sensors, communication devices, or the like) detect that users may be located near the interactive panels. The information displayed to the users may be any type of information, such as user information, product informatio...