ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,359, issued on July 29, was assigned to POR Holdings LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Travel and orientation monitor apparatus for firefighters and rescue personnel" was invented by Jeffrey Robert Moss (Wilmington, Del.) and Francis W. Rush III (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus carried by an individual for aiding in directing the individual to a location of a starting point for a path of travel by the individual includes a sensor for determining the individual's initial orientation at the starting point and subsequent changes of orientations during the travel; a processor coupled to the sensor for assigning one of...