ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,404, issued on March 17, was assigned to Schneider Electric Buildings Americas Inc. (Carrollton, Texas).

"Apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing a two-wire sensor device" was invented by Wray Robert Price (Tigard, Ore.), Girish Thorat (Montreal) and Richard Nathan Dinsdale (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods are described for providing a sensor device. The system includes a control unit and a sensing unit. The sensing unit is coupleable to the control unit via a current loop and includes an input terminal coupleable to the current loop, at least one energy storage unit configur...