US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 8 for "Geofencing and context based sensor self-configuration" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,275, issued on July 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Geofencing and context based sensor self-configuration" was invented by Shailendra Moyal (Pune, India), Venkata Vara Prasad Karri (Visakhapatnam, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing self-configuration of sensors based on geofencing and context awareness includes determining a position for each object from a plurality of objects within a location. The method also includes segmenting the plurality of objects based on a plurality of parameters, where each parameter provides context ...