ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,277, issued on June 30, was assigned to Growth Armor LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for monitoring body orientation of a subject" was invented by Michael A. Bain (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for determining a body orientation of a subject. A device may be secured to the subject which comprises a housing, a first pair of electrodes in an internal chamber defined by the device, and a conductive material in the internal chamber. The first pair of electrodes may be associated with a first orientation of the device such that when the device is placed in the first orient...