ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,874, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Single- and multi-channel radio frequency based sensing" was invented by Hugo Jose Krajnc (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Peter Deixler (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to performing radio frequency (RF)-based sensing. RF-based sensing is performed by a single-channel communication technology in order to detect a sensing event. Upon detecting the sensing event, a multi-channel communication technology is selected in dependence of the single-channel communication technology used for detecting the sensing e...