US Patent Issued to MSA Technology on June 30 for "Systems and methods for powering communication devices" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,927, issued on June 30, was assigned to MSA Technology LLC (Cranberry Township, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for powering communication devices" was invented by Scott Anderson (Carnegie, Pa.) and Kelsey Sutherland (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable communication system having a first communication device, such as a land mobile radio (LMR), with its own battery, and a second communication device, such as a remote speaker microphone (RSM), also having its own battery. The second communication device may receive electrical energy from either the battery of the first communication device or from the battery of the second...