US Patent Issued to CDW on Feb. 18 for "Room presence methods and systems" (Illinois, California, Ohio, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,136, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to CDW LLC (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

"Room presence methods and systems" was invented by Colin R. Vallance (Chicago), Michael Alan Robinson (Clinton, Ohio), Forrest Weinberg (Northridge, Calif.) and Sankar Nair (Federal Way, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for delegating conference rooms using room presence detection includes identifying a human in a digital image using a trained machine learning model; updating room presence information; and determining a next-available conference room. A room presence computing system includes a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when e...