ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,395, issued on March 18.
"Method and system for sensor configuration" was invented by Vamshi Gangumalla (San Jose, Calif.), Uday Mudoi (San Mateo, Calif.), Karthik Katingari (San Jose, Calif.) and Mahdi Heydari (Stanford, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods and systems for controlling a sensor assembly with a plurality of same type sensors. Sensors are operated in active and inactive states. The activation state of at least one of the sensors is changed based on an operational parameter that relates to an environmental condition differentially affecting the plurality of same type sensors."
The patent ...