ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,711, issued on March 25, was assigned to Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016 LLC (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"Methods and systems for the industrial internet of things" was invented by Charles Howard Cella (Pembroke, Mass.), Mehul Desai (Oak Brook, Ill.), Gerald William Duffy Jr. (Philadelphia), Jeffrey P. McGuckin (Philadelphia), Tracey Ho (Pasadena, Calif.), John Segui (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Steven Blumenthal (Lexington, Mass.) and Chun Meng (South Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example monitoring system for data collection includes a data collector including a plurality of sensor. The system includes a data storage to...