ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,673, issued on June 24, was assigned to DeRoyal Industries Inc. (Powell, Tenn.).

"Fall monitor system" was invented by Dhanvin S. Desai (Knoxville, Tenn.), Ethan Valentine (Knoxville, Tenn.), Walter C. Cowart (Blaine, Tenn.), Sarah O. Davis (Knoxville, Tenn.), Evan Reese (Nashville, Tenn.), Nick Sinas (Franklin, Tenn.), Troy Cayon (Nashville, Tenn.) and Anthony Ford (Hendersonville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fall monitor has a first wireless communications receiver and a second wireless communications receiver. The second receiver receives wireless communications according to a different communications protocol than the ...