ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,731, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Cloud-based artificial intelligence routing for emergency evacuation systems using Wi-Fi access points over data communication systems" was invented by Seyed Dawood Sajjadi Torshizi (Burnaby, Canada) and Yanjie Gu (Surrey, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud-based intelligence to emergency evacuation systems using Wi-Fi access points over data communication systems. A layout of emergency exits for a building being monitored and AP locations within the building layout is configured. A density map is generated from a number of stations within radio ra...