ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,194, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ROOMZ S.A. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Battery-operated monitoring device, system and method" was invented by Roger Meier (Granges-Paccot, Switzerland) and Patrick Terraux (Bulle, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the management of shared work spaces. A goal is to accurately reflect the actual status of a booking as close to real time as possible. Embodiments of the invention allow for low-power, battery operated, motion sensor devices to report the actual status of shared work spaces to a central server using existing wireless communications means in the e...