ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,798, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SigmaSense LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Personal monitoring system for monitoring body conditions using e-field communications" was invented by Richard Stuart Seger Jr. (Belton, Texas), Michael Shawn Gray (Elgin, Texas), Kevin Joseph Derichs (Buda, Texas), Daniel Keith Van Ostrand (Leander, Texas) and Timothy W. Markison (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal monitoring system includes one or more passive biometric sensors and a communication device. A passive biometric sensor is operable to sense a body condition of a body in accordance with a sense signal at a sense frequency to prod...