US Patent Issued to Steelcase on March 17 for "Method and system for locating resources and communicating within an enterprise" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,491, issued on March 17, was assigned to Steelcase Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Method and system for locating resources and communicating within an enterprise" was invented by Timothy D. Swieter (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Robert Scheper (Grand Rapids, Mich.) and Darrin Sculley (Byron Center, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An algorithm formulating system for use with a sensing ecosystem for identifying enterprise space states, the sensing ecosystem including a plurality of sensor devices mounted within an enterprise space wherein each sensor device is capable of sensing a plurality of parameters within the enterprise space, the sy...