ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,237, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DIGITAL GRID RES INST, CHINA SOUTHERN POWER GRID (Guangzhou, China).

"Communication system, method and device for miniature intelligent sensor" was invented by Peng Li (Guangzhou, China), Xu Yin (Guangzhou, China), Bing Tian (Guangzhou, China), Min Guo (Guangzhou, China), Zhiming Wang (Guangzhou, China), Zhong Liu (Guangzhou, China), Hongdi Sun (Guangzhou, China), Jiguang Zhao (Guangzhou, China) and Licheng Li (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system, method, and device for a miniature intelligent sensor. The communication system includes a sensor, a power gateway...