ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,505, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SensThys Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Monitoring tag device systems and methods" was invented by Jo S. Major Jr. (Cupertino, Calif.) and Bradley D. Gaiser (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Efficient and effective internal material property monitoring systems and methods are presented. In one embodiment, a method for monitoring variations in an internal material property of an object comprises sensing variations in a characteristic over time and communicating information on the variations in the characteristic from within the object to a remote component, wherein the communication ...