ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,503, issued on May 27, was assigned to THE DETECTION GROUP INC. (North Andover, Mass.).
"System and method for wireless water leak detection" was invented by Jens Rasmussen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Glen Paulus (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system and method for wireless water leak detection provides for manual prevention of external action, such as an external alarm and/or valve shut-off, if a leak sensor can be reached by a respondent within a pre-set time threshold. Upon detection of a leak by a leak sensor, a local alarm, such as an audible alarm or the like, is initiated. Additionally, at the time of detect...