ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,833, issued on June 17, was assigned to Brocere Electronics Co. Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Modular wireless sensor architecture for internet of things" was invented by Chih-Hao Lai (Taipei, Taiwan) and Jou-Hung Wang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular IoT sensor system for Internet of things includes a network module and an expanded sensor module. The expanded sensor module includes a male connector and a female connector respectively disposed in two connection surfaces of the expanded sensor module, configured to detachably connect to a female connector of the network module. Shape and size of the female connector ...