ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,168, issued on June 10, was assigned to Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016 LLC (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"Systems for self-organizing data collection and storage in a refining environment" was invented by Charles Howard Cella (Pembroke, Mass.), Gerald William Duffy Jr. (Philadelphia), Jeffrey P. McGuckin (Philadelphia) and Mehul Desai (Oak Brook, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for self-organizing data collection and storage in a refining environment are disclosed. An example system may include a swarm of mobile data collectors structured to interpret a plurality of sensor inputs from sensors in the refining environment, wher...