ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,550, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Austin Star Detonator Co. (Cleveland).
"Integrated detonator sensors" was invented by Gimtong Teowee (Westlake Village, Calif.), John David Rathbun (Hunting Valley, Ohio), Larry S. Howe (Norwalk, Ohio) and Walter Jacob Harders (Rocky River, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detonator includes a substrate, a controller mounted to the substrate, and a sensor coupled to the controller to measure a temperature, pressure, acceleration or other environmental parameter of the detonator. The controller is configured to transmit the measured environmental parameter from the detonator to a remote mas...