ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,201, issued on April 7, was assigned to P-WAVER INC. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Combined configuration of a free-field sensor, a structural sensor, a deep-well seismograph, and a remote signal source, and its earthquake detecting system" was invented by Hung-Wei Chiang (Taipei, Taiwan), Pei-Yang Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hsiu-Hsien Wang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An earthquake detection system is disclosed. The earthquake detection system includes a main sensor, a first backup sensor, a second backup sensor and a third backup sensor. The main sensor is disposed on a free field. The first backup sensor is disposed on a...