ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,639, issued on May 20, was assigned to PIXART IMAGING INC. (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

"Smart detection system with multiple sensors for detecting same event" was invented by Yi-Hsien Ko (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan), Yen-Min Chang (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan) and Nien-Tse Chen (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a smart detection system including multiple sensors and a central server. The central server confirms a model of every sensor and a position thereof in an operation area. The central server confirms an event position and predicts a user action according to event signals sent by the multiple sens...