ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,063, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to VergeSense Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Method for monitoring occupancy in a work area" was invented by Dan Ryan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kelby Green (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method for monitoring occupancy in a work area includes, at a sensor block: transitioning from an inactive state into an active state when an output of a motion sensor indicates motion in a work area; during a scan cycle in the active state, recording an image through an optical sensor at a time, detecting a set of humans in the image, detecting a second set of human e...