ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,185, issued on April 7, was assigned to Elliptic Laboratories ASA (Oslo, Norway).
"Robust virtual sensor" was invented by Espen Klovning (Strommen, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an electronic device and corresponding method, where the electronic device includes at least two sensors. The at least two sensors are in communication with a virtual sensor including a processing unit adapted to monitor the use of the device based on input from said sensors. The at least two sensors include activity sensors sensing user activities related to the device, and the processing unit is configured to receive...