ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,585, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to People Power Co. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for evaluating sensor data for occupancy detection and responsively controlling control devices" was invented by David Moss (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gathering first data and second data over a communication network, the first data being detected by a first sensor device deployed in a first sub-region of a region, the second data being detected by a second sensor device deployed in a second sub-region of the region. Executing a state detection cloud-bot. Generating a likelihood the region is in a particular state...