US Patent Issued to Gestigon on Oct. 21 for "Method and system for detecting a seat occupancy state of a seating arrangement based on radar point clouds" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,974, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Gestigon GmbH (Luebeck, Germany).

"Method and system for detecting a seat occupancy state of a seating arrangement based on radar point clouds" was invented by Christian Strauss (Luebeck, Germany) and Verena Krueckemeier (Luebeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the automated detection of a seat occupancy state of a seating arrangement involves receiving or generating measurement data representing an associated radar point cloud for each measurement frame from a plurality of measurement frames; and determining a seat occupancy state of the seating arrangement based on an eva...