ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,416, issued on April 8, was assigned to NANJING XIGUANG RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Jiangsu, China).

"Sensing function control node for internet of things" was invented by Xiaohan Sun (Suzhou, China), Xiaokai Ye (Suzhou, China), Kun Huang (Suzhou, China), Tao Lyu (Suzhou, China), Jun Zhao (Suzhou, China), Qiugun Miao (Suzhou, China), Jinhui Li (Suzhou, China) and Xuekang Shan (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a sensing function control node for an Internet of Things (IoT), and relates to technical field of electrical communication. The node includes an accessing ...