ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,815, issued on March 31, was assigned to STMicroelectronics Inc. (Coppell, Texas).

"Method and system for updating machine learning based classifiers for reconfigurable sensors" was invented by Mahesh Chowdhary (San Jose, Calif.) and Mahaveer Jain (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor management system includes a cloud-based sensor configuration system and an electronic device. The electronic device includes a sensor unit. The sensor unit includes configuration data that controls operation of the sensor unit. The configuration data includes a classifier that classifies feature sets generated from sensor signals o...