ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,645, issued on March 24, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Room boundary detection" was invented by Dan Wang (Allen, Texas), Slobodan Jovanovic (Bethesda, Md.) and Sandeep Rao (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided. In some examples, the method includes receiving a first user input at processing circuitry. The method also includes determining, by the processing circuitry based on a signal from a radar sensor, movement of a user in a room after receiving the first user input. In addition, the method includes determining, by the processing circuitry, a first estimated location of a first ...