US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch, The Research Foundation for The State University of New York on May 13 for "Apparatus, method and system for person detection and identification utilizing wireless signals and images" (New York, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,033, issued on May 13, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany) and The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Albany, N.Y.).

"Apparatus, method and system for person detection and identification utilizing wireless signals and images" was invented by Shan Lin (Jericho, N.Y.), Hongkai Chen (Smithtown, N.Y.) and Sirajum Munir (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for identifying persons utilizing a camera and a wireless transceiver. The wireless transceiver receives wireless packets (e.g., Wi-Fi packets) from one or more mobile devices associated with one or more persons. The channel state...