ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,805, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Elliptic Laboratories ASA (Oslo, Norway).
"Human presence detection" was invented by Guenael Thomas Strutt (San Francisco), Tom Oystein Kavli (Oslo, Norway), Eirik Torbjorn Bakken Skjonsfjell (Oslo, Norway), Hallstein Skjolsvik (Oslo, Norway), Jakob Krohn (Oslo, Norway) and Tobias Boren Svendsen (Oslo, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system for monitoring user presence relative to an electronic device, and related method and computer implemented software. The electronic device including at least one acoustic transducer being configured to operate within ...