ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,141, issued on March 3, was assigned to Zurn Water LLC (Milwaukee).

"Battery powered end point device for IoT applications" was invented by Arindam Chakraborty (Milwaukee), Richard Ryer (Milwaukee) and Brandon Feil (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems of monitoring and managing a facility including a plurality of end point devices. One system includes an end point device including an electronic processor, the electronic processor powered by an energy source local to the end point device. The electronic processor is configured to receive data from at least one electro-mechanical element of a fixture associated...