ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,408, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies LLC (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Device and method for electrostatic discharge event alert" was invented by Daniel Benjamin Hartley (Kansas City, Mo.) and Logan Thomas Walz (Kansas City, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alert device and method of detecting electrostatic discharge (ESD) events. The ESD alert device includes a substrate for supporting printed circuitry thereon, the printed circuitry, and an alert device fixed relative to the substrate. The printed circuitry may be printed onto the substrate and may include an antenna for detecting ESD as ...