ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,889, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to INPIXON (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Multi-channel spatial positioning system" was invented by James Francis Hallett (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Kirk Arnold Moir (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes acquiring a set of images from a plurality of cameras in a monitored environment, detecting a first entity based on the set of images, and determining a first set of locations of the first entity based on locations of the first entity in the set of images. The method also includes acquiring sensor measurements from a plurality of sensors and determining a second set of locations ...