ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,942, issued on Sept. 9.
"Distributed intelligent software for vibration and acoustic monitoring and systems and methods implementing the same" was invented by Hendrik J Volkerink (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ajay Khoche (West San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes instructing a first sensing device to enter a first state, the first state comprising a first set of functions and behavior for the sensing device. The first sensing device is instructed to aggregate sensing data, the sensing data comprising measurements of the property of the surroundings of the first sensing device measured by the at least one senso...