US Patent Issued to United States Gypsum on Aug. 25 for "Cementitious sheathing panel with moisture sensor and system and method for detecting moisture within structure" (Illinois, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,048, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to United States Gypsum Co. (Chicago).

"Cementitious sheathing panel with moisture sensor and system and method for detecting moisture within structure" was invented by Ajith M. Rao (Gurnee, Ill.), Suman Sinha Ray (Akron, Ohio) and Derrick Hutchinson (Mundelein, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a system and a method for detecting moisture within a structure can use a cementitious panel including a moisture sensor. The moisture sensor can comprise a moisture-sensing, passive RFID tag. A reader can be used to periodically interrogate the RFID moisture-sensing tag to determine wheth...