ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,343, issued on April 29, was assigned to Newtonoid Technologies LLC (Liberty, Mo.).
"System for controlling the application of energy to a construction component" was invented by Fielding B. Staton (Liberty, Mo.) and David Strumpf (Columbia, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A construction component for detecting the application of energy and responding to the energy input wherein a plurality of particles are distributed throughout the component with each particle being configured to sense component state information. The component includes at least one processor configured to receive sensing information from the plurality of particl...