US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Sensor-based door lock confidence" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,262, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Sensor-based door lock confidence" was invented by Priti Marappan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Darren Ernest Canavor (Redmond, Wash.), Daniel Wade Hitchcock (Bothell, Wash.), Bharath Kumar Bhimanaik (Seattle) and Andrew Jay Roths (Kenmore, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of implementing a network-enabled secure door lock, comprising obtaining measurements of an environment associated with a door from a variety of sensor types; generating, based at least in part on the measurements, a set of inputs to a machine-learning model; inputting the set of inputs ...