ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,842, issued on July 14, was assigned to DRACULA TECHNOLOGIES (Valence, France).
"Self-contained physical data sensor operating by the energy input from a photovoltaic module" was invented by Brice Cruchon (Guilherand Granges, France), Sadok Ben Dkhil (Valence, France) and Enora Arche (Valence, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a physical data sensor comprising: a photovoltaic module having at least two photovoltaic cells that are interconnected in series, an electronic device configured to collect and transmit at least temperature data, the electronic device comprising a flexible printed circuit, electric...