ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,506, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Urugus S.A. (Montevideo, Uruguay).

"Transducing agents and devices for remote sensing" was invented by Gerardo Gabriel Richarte (Caba, Argentina) and David Vilaseca (Caba, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and devices for use in aerial or satellite-based applications to detect elements or magnitudes of interest, or monitor their changes, in a target location are disclosed. A transducing system includes a detector device to sense, transduce or detect optical properties of at least one transducing agent linked to the elements or magnitudes of interest. Based on the optical...