ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,693, issued on July 7, was assigned to SR Technologies Inc. (Sunrise, Fla.).

"System and method for blocking of low power wide area networks" was invented by Kyle Patrick Kelly (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), Phillip Louis Roccapriore (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Graham K. Smith (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring and blocking data packets while maintaining the ability to demodulate blocked data packets including receiving, at a receiver, a first data packet and analyzing a first portion of the first data packet to determine one or more attributes of the first data packet. A blocking signal is transmitt...