ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,630, issued on July 22, was assigned to Vorbeck Materials Corp..

"Sensor node communications system and related methods" was invented by Brian Losey (Jessup, Md.), Sriram Manivannan (Elkridge, Md.), Samarpita Chowdhury (Baltimore), John Lettow (Washington), James A Turney (Silver Spring, Md.), Josiah Henry (Linthincum, Md.), Dan Scheffer (Frederick, Md.), Kenneth Fritsch (Arnold, Md.) and Trentice V Bolar (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to a sensor node communication system that determines the presence of an object. The system includes man-portable nodes that communicate via a self-organizing LAN. Eac...