ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,595, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Identification of a characteristic of a physical system based on collaborative sensor networks" was invented by Ryan Alan Goldhahn (Livermore, Calif.), Priyadip Ray (Livermore, Calif.), Braden C. Soper (Livermore, Calif.), Hao Chen (Boise, Idaho) and Deepak Rajan (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node having a sensor and a computing device is provided for identifying a location of a source of a physical process. The node collects via the sensor a measurement of the physical process. The node repeatedly recalculates...