US Patent Issued to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Aug. 11 for "Sensor fusion for low power occupancy sensing" (New York, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,286, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.).

"Sensor fusion for low power occupancy sensing" was invented by Robert F. Karlicek Jr. (Mechanicville, N.Y.), Arunas Tuzikas (Yorktown, Va.) and Tianna-Kae Woodstock (Paradox, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting occupants in a room is provided. The system includes at least one first sensor configured to establish a background color map of the room in an unoccupied state and to detect color shift data resulting from at least one occupant entering the room, at least one second sensor configured to determine height data of the a...