ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,529, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Device, system, method, and computer product for detecting and evaluating environmental quantities and events with modular approach and variable complexity" was invented by Luca Fontanella (Cusago, Italy), Andrea Labombarda (Milan), Marco Bianco (Cesano Boscone, Italy), Davide Ghezzi (Boltiere, Italy), Christian Raineri (Ponte Nosta, Italy) and Paolo Gatti (Rezzato, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting and evaluating environmental quantities and events is formed by a detection and evaluation device and a mobile phone, conn...