ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,525, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ivani LLC (Chesterfield, Mo.).

"Systems and methods for distinguishing persons from other entities using network presence sensing" was invented by Matthew Wootton (O'Fallon, Mo.), John Wootton (St. Louis), Chris Nissman (Tucson, Ariz.), Justin McKinney (Wildwood, Mo.), Saarth Mehrotra (Appleton, Wis.) and Boris Dieseldorff (St. Charles, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting the presence of a body (typically a human) in a network without fiducial elements while additionally using fiducial elements to assist the system and possibly reduce the computational loading o...