US Patent Issued to University of Cape Town on June 17 for "Sensor and a sensor network for monitoring utility poles" (South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,728, issued on June 17, was assigned to University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa).

"Sensor and a sensor network for monitoring utility poles" was invented by Edward Sidney Boje (Cape Town, South Africa) and Jason Andrew Hardy (Rondebosch, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor for monitoring utility poles includes a sensing module to detect a physical quantity from a utility pole or a conductor supported by a utility pole to which the sensor is attached in use. A power supply supplies power to the device and a memory for storing sensor data. A communications module is used for transmitting and receiving sensor d...