ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,029, issued on April 7, was assigned to Mueller International LLC (Atlanta).

"Acoustic sensor system" was invented by Daryl Lee Gibson (Cleveland, Tenn.), Mohammad Hassan Sobhani (Burlington, Canada), Andrew Wallace (Richmond Hill, Canada), Yongjun Mao (Markham, Canada), Valentin Mircea Burtea (Toronto), Pocholo Laforteza (Oakville, Canada), Sebastien Perrier (Peterbrough, Canada), Bruce Robertson (Toronto), Igor Gorban (Oakville, Canada) and Marcin Paul Kloc (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system can include a sensor module including a vibration sensor; a processor module including a power supply and a proc...