ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,536, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Kontakt.io Inc. (New York).

"Machine learning model for occupancy detection" was invented by Lukasz Pawel Szelejewski (Cracow, Poland), Dawid Wieslaw Crivelli (Bielsko-Biala, Poland), Rom Eizenberg (New York) and Philipp Gustav Kurt Wolfgang Freiherr von und zu Gilsa (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The occupancy detection system for determining an occupancy count of a room is presented. The occupancy detection system may include a thermal camera, sensor array, transceiver, central processing unit (CPU), memory, occupancy detection module, and network connection module. The thermal came...