ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,734, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Banyan Water Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Moisture monitoring system" was invented by David M. Bradham (Austin, Texas), Gillan A. Taddune (Austin, Texas) and Thomas A. Roberts (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moisture monitoring system includes a wireless moisture monitoring node, a wireless gateway device, and a remote server that monitors environmental conditions associated with a fluid delivery system. The wireless moisture monitoring nodes are configured in a wireless local area network and communicate indications based on sensed information to the wireless gateway device. T...