ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,312, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Haltian Oy (Oulu, Finland).
"Apparatus for counting objects" was invented by Marko Sarasmo (Oulu, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for counting objects is disclosed. Apparatus includes a power source (108), a radio transceiver (110), two or more passive infrared (PIR) sensors (120A, 120B, 120C), one or more memories (104) including computer program code (106), a processor (102) to execute the computer program code (106), and a mechanical field of view limiting structure (126A, 128A, 130A, 126B, 128B, 130B, 126C, 128C, 130C) configured to limit the field of view of each infrared-...