ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,318, issued on June 23, was assigned to Matergenics Inc. (Pittsburgh).
"Remote structure temperature monitor" was invented by Mehrooz Zamanzadeh (Pittsburgh), Carolyn Tome (Pittsburgh), Clinton Char (Pittsburgh), Nathan Pace (Pittsburgh) and Farzan Zolfaghari (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature monitoring unit includes a thermocouple, a communication device, having an antenna, controlled by a controller, and a power supply, surrounded by an enclosure, buried underground at a first distance away from a structure. The enclosure is buried underground with the ground having the ability to further insulate the insulat...