ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,646, issued on April 15, was assigned to Tricorntech Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).
"Smart sensing network" was invented by Tsung-Kuan A. Chou (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are described of a sensing network including one or more sensor nodes, wherein each of the one or more sensor nodes includes a gas sensor that can measure the presence, concentration, or both, of one or more airborne pollutants in a nodal coverage area surrounding the sensor node. A sensor base that can measure the presence, concentration, or both, of one or more airborne pollutants is positioned in the nodal coverage area of each of the...