ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,003, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Lyten Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sensors incorporated into airborne vehicle components to detect physical characteristic changes" was invented by Michael Stowell (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daniel Cook (Woodside, Calif.) and Carlos Montalvo (Cambria, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed airborne vehicle includes split-ring resonators (split ring resonators), which may be embedded within a material. Each split ring resonator may be formed from a three-dimensional (3D) monolithic carbonaceous growth and may detect an electromagnetic ping emitted from a user device. Each split ring resonato...