ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,143, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Robust optical monitoring device and operating method thereof" was invented by Mateusz Mazur (Sopot, Poland), Rajiv Ranjan (Riverview, Fla.), Marcin Piech (East Hampton, Conn.) and Leszek Wolski (Reda, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure describe a robust optical monitoring device and an operating method thereof. The optical monitoring device includes a housing comprising a first compartment and a second compartment. The first compartment includes a camera circuit board and a wireless connection circuit board, wherein th...