ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,586, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Shoplogix (U.S.) Inc. (Toronto).

"Steam trap monitoring devices, systems, and related techniques" was invented by Jim Boley (San Francisco), Kyle Craig (Charlottesville, Va.), Shadi Hawawini (Mountain View, Calif.), Nathan E. Roberts (Charlottesville, Va.), David D. Wentzloff (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Benton H. Calhoun (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and techniques relating to steam trap monitoring are described. These include battery-less steam trap monitors that run on power harvested from their environments, systems for acquiring steam trap monitor data fo...