ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,492, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Modifying operation of sensors using collected sensor data" was invented by Amer Aref Hassan (Kirkland, Wash.), Mahendra D. Sekaran (Sammamish, Wash.) and Edward C. Giaimo III (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for modifying operation of sensors using collected sensor data are provided herein. Sensor data describing a physical environment of a user authorized to access an access-controlled resource is collected according to an initial mode of operation. The initial mode of operation defines an initial performance for ...