ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,967, issued on June 30, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).
"Systems and methods for wireless activation and communications in concrete sensors" was invented by Jens Neumann (Grabs, Switzerland), Ryan Twomey (Dedham, Mass.) and Katelyn Jobes (Waltham, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a sensor device for monitoring properties of a building material within which the sensor device can be embedded. The sensor device includes a controller, a memory associated with the controller, one or more sensors communicatively connected to the controller for measuring one or more properties of the building material...