ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,651, issued on April 8, was assigned to VOCIS Ltd. (Lindley, Great Britain).
"Methods and system for self-checking sensor network" was invented by James M. Richardson (Hinckley, Great Britain) and Richard Barnbrook (Cubbington, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for operating a system that includes an array of sensors are described. In one example, output of sensors included in the array is characterized as being in one of a plurality of states. Diagnostics may be performed on sensors in the array of sensors based on sensors being in one of the plurality of states."
The patent was filed on Sept. 15, 202...