ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,714, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TABOR MOUNTAIN LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Remote monitoring and water shutoff systems" was invented by Joseph Schmitt (Whitefish, Mont.), Michael Kramer (Princeton, Minn.), Ronak Desai (Daytona, Fla.) and Randall Kurtz (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system for detecting a water leak, the system including: a sensor that can generate sensor signals and a computer system that can receive and process the sensor signals to detect a water leak. In response to detecting the leak, the computer system can send a state change command to a valve control device, which can be c...