ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,991, issued on March 24, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and a wireless device for collecting sensor data from a remote device having a limited range wireless communication capability" was invented by Joseph M. Murray (Schwenksville, Pa.), Jean-Louis Gauvreau (La Prairie, Canada), Rocco Di Girolamo (Laval, Canada), Kenneth F. Lynch (Wayne, Pa.), Prabhakar R. Chitrapu (Blue Bell, Pa.), Scott C. Hergenhan (Collegeville, Pa.) and Robert A. DiFazio (Greenlawn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for registering devices on advanced networks as well as providing operative c...