ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,976, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Control device, network, method and computer program for controlling a presence detection using radio frequency sensing in a network" was invented by Peter Deixler (Arlington, Mass.), Leendert Teunis Rozendaal (Valkenswaard, Netherlands) and Hugo Jose Krajnc (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a control device for controlling radio frequency sensing in a network (100), e.g. Zigbee or Wi-Fi network, comprising a detection area (120). The control device (110) comprises a neighboring network information pro...