US Patent Issued to Google on Jan. 13 for "Privacy-preserving radar-based fall monitoring" (California, New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,110, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Privacy-preserving radar-based fall monitoring" was invented by Dongeek Shin (San Jose, Calif.), Shwetak Patel (Seattle), Rizwan Chaudhry (Millbrae, Calif.), Chetan Bhole (Mountain View, Calif.), Vaibhav Darbari (New York), Todd Whitehurst (Belmont, Calif.) and Anupam Pathak (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various arrangements for performing fall detection are presented. A smart-home device may transmit radar waves. Based on reflected radar waves, raw waveform data may be created. The raw waveform data may be processed to determine that a ...