ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,095, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Dynamic segmentation and occupancy scoring in edge environments with mobile devices for real-time decision making" was invented by Eric L. Caron (Ottawa), Vinicius Michel Gottin (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Herberth Birck Frohlich (Florianopolis, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Occupancy aware decision-making is disclosed. Positions of entities in an environment are determined. Stationary entities are used as markers to segment the environment. Positions of non-stationary entities are used to determine an occupancy score for each of the segments. Decis...