US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on Oct. 14 for "Systems and methods for people counting using beam-forming passive infrared sensors having a dynamically configurable field of view" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,690, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Systems and methods for people counting using beam-forming passive infrared sensors having a dynamically configurable field of view" was invented by Eric Bertrand Shen (Bedford, Mass.) and Jin Yu (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection system (10) and a detection method (2000) are disclosed herein. The system includes a PIR sensor (12) positioned in an area comprising a plurality of sub-areas, the motion sensor comprising an optical device (22) having a plurality of sub-lenses (26, 28, 30), each sub-lens of the plurality of su...