US Patent No: 7,456,733

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Environmental monitoring device

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Abstract

The disclosure is directed to a sensor device including processing circuitry, at least one sensor coupled to the processing circuitry, a serial data interface coupled to the processing circuitry and memory responsive to the processing circuitry. The memory includes a static unique identification number. The serial data interface provides access to retrieve the static unique identification number and sensed data measured with the at least one sensor from the memory.

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Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddressTotal Patents
AMERICAN POWER CONVERSION CORPORATIONWEST KINGSTON, RI332

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Graczyk, Ronald Cedar Park, TX 9 26
Joy, Ryan Austin, TX 13 28
Primm, Michael R Austin, TX 10 155
Slade, Boyd E Austin, TX 7 64
Smith, David K Georgetown, TX 33 943

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Patent Citation Ranking

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Patent Info (Count) # Cites Year
 
AMERICAN POWER CONVERSION CORPORATION (1)
7,986,224 Environmental monitoring device 1 2008
 
DONGBU HITEK CO., LTD. (1)
7,754,557 Method for manufacturing vertical CMOS image sensor 0 2008
 
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY (1)
7,953,828 Distributed networked data acquisition device 0 2006
 
SITRONIC GES. FUR ELEKTROTECHNISCHE AUSRUSTUNG MBH & CO. KG (1)
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