ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,694, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Eagle Technology LLC (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for radio frequency sensing of seismic events" was invented by Arthur G. Wilson (Melbourne, Fla.) and Vivek Krishna (West Melbourne, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting or predicting a seismic event. The methods comprise, by a system: receiving at least one communication signal using a carrier recovery component with a fixed location remote from a source of the at least one communication signal; determining at least one of (i) phase deviations of the at least one communication signal over time and (ii...