ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,837, issued on July 1, was assigned to OneEvent Technologies Inc. (Eau Claire, Wis.).

"Event condition detection" was invented by Paul Robert Mullaly (Santa Monica, Calif.), Kurt Joseph Wedig (Mount Horeb, Wis.), Daniel Ralph Parent (Mount Horeb, Wis.), Kevin Sadowski (Mount Horeb, Wis.), Scott Smith (Oregon, Wis.), Nathan Gabriel (Fitchburg, Wis.) and Laura Nagler (McFarland, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system which assists rescuers in efforts to locate persons in the event of potentially harmful condition in a structure. An example system includes a sensory node which gathers sensor data including occupancy da...