ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,579, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Honeywell Analytics Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for blockage detection in porous media" was invented by Janmejaya Tripathy (Charlotte, N.C.), Sumit Suresh Kulkarni (Charlotte, N.C.) and Renuka Prasad G (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for monitoring environmental conditions are provided. For example, a computer-implemented method may include transmitting a plurality of signals to a vibration actuator coupled to a resonator that is affixed to a porous media of a diffusion sensor, e...