ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,149, issued on March 18, was assigned to CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA-Recherche et Developpement (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Remotely powered cooperative sensor device" was invented by Olivier Chetelat (Cudrefin, Switzerland), Benjamin Bonnal (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Andre Fivaz (Les Ponts-de-Martel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor for potential and/or impedance measurements on a body including at least one sensor connected to a master; the master including a power supply supplying a power signal transmitted to the at least one sensor; said at least one sensor including a first sen...