ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,077, issued on March 31, was assigned to Deako Inc. (Seattle).
"Systems and methods for occupancy prediction" was invented by Derek Richardson (Seattle), Patrick Prendergast (Clinton, Wash.) and Dana Olson (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for occupancy detection and prediction is disclosed. The system may include a modular control unit configured to control power to at least one load device, which may include a device control assembly configured to be removably coupled to a backplate. The device control assembly may include an occupancy sensor configured to detect a current occupancy state of a detection zone...