ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,284, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The University of Texas at El Paso (Austin, Texas).

"Portable network router system" was invented by Daniel Cruz (El Paso, Texas), Craig Tweedie (El Paso, Texas) and Gesuri Ramirez-Garcia (El Paso, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable network router system for communicating with a remote sensor is provided. The system comprises a transceiver configured to transmit and receive radio signals, and comprises a storage device configured to store program instructions and downloaded data. The system comprises a random access memory configured to temporarily store program instructions. The s...