ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,690, issued on March 17, was assigned to Kaiterra Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Systems and methods for adaptive environmental monitoring with intelligent sampling and power management" was invented by Vaughn Dixon Rhodes (Pleasant Grove, Utah), Michael Paul Hasak (Mountain View, Calif.) and Liam Robert Bates (Mollens, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for adaptive environmental monitoring with intelligent sampling and power management are disclosed. The system includes at least a sensing device configured to monitor an environmental condition associated with at least a structure, wherein the at ...