ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,948, issued on May 12, was assigned to Aerial Technologies Inc. (Montreal).

"Device-free localization methods within smart indoor environments" was invented by Negar Ghourchian (Montreal), Michel Allegue Martinez (Terrebonne, Canada) and Doina Precup (Cote Saint-Luc, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device-free localization for smart indoor environments within an indoor area covered by wireless networks is detected using active off-the-shelf-devices would be beneficial in a wide range of applications. By exploiting existing wireless communication signals and machine learning techniques in order to automatically detect entrance in...