ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,242, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Power efficient agent monitoring devices and methods" was invented by Jialing Wu (Lebanon, N.H.), Yingxuan Zhu (Framingham, Mass.), Han Su (Framingham, Mass.) and Jian Li (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by an agent monitoring device, comprises obtaining, by a sensor of the agent monitoring device, sensor data over a period of time, the sensor data describing a characteristic of an agent associated with the agent monitoring device, determining output data for the sensor based on the sensor data using a learning...