US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 20 for "Method for prioritizing human presence sensors in a computer system based on arbitration policies" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,266, issued on May 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method for prioritizing human presence sensors in a computer system based on arbitration policies" was invented by Ugan Sivagnanenthirarajah (Seattle), Michael Jeffrey Ajax (Redmond, Wash.), Sathyanarayanan Karivaradaswamy (Sammamish, Wash.), Robert Eugene Harris Jr. (Woodinville, Wash.), Sayak Chatterjee (Seattle), Sarah Anne Barnette (Seattle), Sanjana Ramakrishnan Sunder (Redmond, Wash.), Sanjeev Chandra Reddy (Redmond, Wash.) and Sergii Viktorovych Liashenko (Edmonds, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system receives a senso...