US Patent Issued to THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK on Sept. 9 for "Chopped passive infrared sensor apparatus and method for stationary and moving occupant detection" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,046, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (Albany, N.Y.).

"Chopped passive infrared sensor apparatus and method for stationary and moving occupant detection" was invented by Ya Wang (Albany, N.Y.), Haili Liu (Albany, N.Y.) and Kevin Wang (Albany, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chopped PIR (C-PIR) sensor is capable of detecting both stationary and moving objects with a high degree of accuracy using a narrow infrared semi-transparent chopper to temporally shutter incident radiation received by pyroelectric sensing elements. Demonstrating a field of view of 110deg (horiz...