US Patent Issued to Vorbeck Materials on Aug. 4 for "Dual functioning signaling device" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,863, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Vorbeck Materials Corp. (Columbia, Md.).

"Dual functioning signaling device" was invented by Sriram Manivannan (Elkridge, Md.), James Turney (Halethorpe, Md.) and Trentice Bolar (Jessup, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the instant disclosure relate to dual functioning signaling devices. The device has a signaling unit that includes an active- and semi-passive signaling components. The signaling unit is affixed to and/or positioned within a textile or substrate. The active signaling component includes a transceiver, power source, and input device to allow the user to selectively ...