US Patent Issued to Edge 3 Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Coarse to fine movement detection in vehicles" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,253, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Edge 3 Technologies (Phoenix).

"Coarse to fine movement detection in vehicles" was invented by Tarek El Dokor (Phoenix) and James Holmes (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for identifying the presence of an occupant in a vehicle. The system includes a first sensor positioned within a seating area of a seat and having a corresponding sensitive zone passing through the seating area vertically, and a second sensor positioned within a back rest area of the seat and having a corresponding sensitive zone passing through a chest area of an occupant horizontally. The first se...