US Patent Issued to Vorbeck Materials on Sept. 30 for "Wearable communications node with mesh networking capabilities" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,932, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Vorbeck Materials Corp. (Jessup, Md.).

"Wearable communications node with mesh networking capabilities" was invented by Sriram Manivannan (Elkridge, Md.), Jennifer Pinkos (Hanover, Md.), James Allen Turney (Silver Spring, Md.), Michael Filipelli (Washington, Md.), Christie Burrow (New Market, Md.), Victor Contreras (Baltimore) and Dan Scheffer (Frederick, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to a wearable communications node (WCN) with mesh networking capabilities. The WCN, which is worn on the user's torso, includes an enclosure and shoulder strap(s) as well as communication...