ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,591, issued on May 13, was assigned to Resolution Products LLC (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Home wireless discovery" was invented by Brian K. Seemann (Lakeville, Minn.), David J. Mayne (Eagan, Minn.), Paul G. Saldin (Stillwater, Minn.) and Daniel Mondor (Somerset, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method for detecting a configuration of wireless sensors within a vicinity includes a method of assessing wireless sensors in the vicinity of an application computing system. The application computing system is operated in a listen mode to receive and record wireless transmissions produced by one or more wireless sensors p...