ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,029, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Silicon Controls Pty Ltd (Macquarie Park, Australia).

"Method and a system for monitoring a quantity related to an asset" was invented by Anthony Robert Carr (Pymble, Australia), Michael Alexander St. Leger Neuman (Milsons Point, Australia) and Robert William Gerald Battye (Wahroonga, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically electronically associating vessel identity information of a vessel with an unassociated telemetric device, the unassociated telemetric device comprising a processor and being configured to detect and transmit quantity or usage data and being confi...