ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,689, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SUNRADON LLC (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for environmental sensing using docked detector-hub interfaces" was invented by Kai Wundke (Cocoa, Fla.) and Marek Minta (Melbourne Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system that can include an environmental detector having an environmental sensor and a detector electrical contact configured to transfer environmental sensor data. A communication hub can be configured to communicate with the environmental detector and receive the environmental sensor data. The communication hub can include a hub electrical contact conf...