ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,560, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Lasarrus Clinic and Research Center (Middle River, Md.).

"Energy-efficient collection of wearable sensor data" was invented by Wassila Lalouani (Catonsville, Md.), Mohamed Younis (Catonsville, Md.), Roland N. Emokpae Jr. (Middle River, Md.) and Lloyd E. Emokpae (Middle River, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable garment with sensors attached to obtain physiological data. The sensors are incorporated to form a body area sensor network to obtain the data. This provides patients with improved health monitoring by aggregating multiple interconnected nodes on a human body for sensorimotor m...