ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,208, issued on July 15, was assigned to Banner Engineering Corp. (Minneapolis).

"Distributed communication and control system using concurrent multi-channel master unit" was invented by Robert T. Fayfield (Orono, Minn.), Sabrina Kawalec (Minneapolis), Mark Rue (Plymouth, Minn.), Paul Fabian (Minneapolis), Arthur Padget (Minneapolis), Charles Dolezalek (Blaine, Minn.), Luke Karnas (Minneapolis), William Theunissen (Minneapolis), David Franke (Minneapolis), Robert Schlosser (Minneapolis), Kent Dahlen (Minneapolis), Matthew Schmitt (Minneapolis) and Nick Olsen (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and associated methods ...