ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,796, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Room item monitoring" was invented by Endrigo Nadin Pinheiro (Spring, Texas), Christopher C. Mohrman (Spring, Texas) and Nick Sutton (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example electronic device includes a memory. An electronic list of baseline items and a description of an arrangement of the baseline items associated with a room are stored in the memory. The baseline items and the description of the arrangement of the baseline items are generated based on room usage information and a classification of an individual using the roo...