US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on March 25 for "Devices, methods, and systems for occupancy detection" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,668, issued on March 25, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Devices, methods, and systems for occupancy detection" was invented by Robert Townsend (Lancashire, Great Britain) and Sahand Ghanoun (Guildford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and systems for occupancy detection are described herein. One device includes instructions to receive an image of a portion of a facility captured by an imaging device, the image defined by a field of view, and set a first occupancy detection threshold for a first part of the field of view and a second occupancy detection threshold for a s...