US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 9 for "Radio frequency-based crowd analytics" (Illinois, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,468, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Radio frequency-based crowd analytics" was invented by Deepak Vasisht (Champaign, Ill.), Manikanta Kotaru (Kenmore, Wash.), Nissanka Arachchige Bodhi Priyantha (Redmond, Wash.), Ranveer Chandra (Kirkland, Wash.) and Jiaming Wang (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deployment of sensors transmit radio frequency (RF) signals into an area of interest. The radar maps are generated from the reflected signals, including a static radar map and a dynamic radar map. Multipath and radar sidelobes are removed from the radar maps using a neu...