ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,518, issued on March 25, was assigned to May Patents Ltd. (Hod-Hasharon, Israel).
"Sequentially operated modules" was invented by Yehuda Binder (Ramat Gan, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, modules and a system formed by connecting the modules for controlling payloads are disclosed. An activation signal is propagated in the system from a module to the modules connected to it. Upon receiving an activation signal, the module (after a pre-set or random delay) activates a payload associated with it, and transmits the activation signal (after another pre-set or random delay) to one or more modules connected to it. The system ...