US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 22 for "Low power presence detection in collaborative environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,866, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Low power presence detection in collaborative environment" was invented by Mehul Soman (San Jose, Calif.), Diyan Teng (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Nisarg Keyurbhai Trivedi (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a coordinating device may perform presence detection based on collaborative ultrasound sensing by identifying a plurality of sensing devices within a predetermined area and obtaining ultrasound sensing capability reports from the plurality of sensing devices. The coordinating device may also determine a collaborative ultrasou...