US Patent Issued to Phillips 66 on June 10 for "Industrial wireless systems with low power wireless sensors" (Illinois, Louisiana, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,720, issued on June 10, was assigned to Phillips 66 Co. (Houston).

"Industrial wireless systems with low power wireless sensors" was invented by Paul L. Bird (Granite City, Ill.), Shahid Bashir (Katy, Texas), John W. Gusewelle (Dorsey, Ill.), Scott M. Gallagher (Fulshear, Texas) and Brendan R. Keuss (Westlake, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data acquired by numerous wireless sensors in a large industrial setting is communicated to the operations center via nodes in defined geographic cells where the signals from the sensors may be depowered to naturally attenuate below the perception of most other receiving nodes in the industria...