ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,105, issued on April 29, was assigned to Silvair Sp. z o.o. (Cracow, Poland).

"Networked sensors integrated with heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems" was invented by Szymon Slupik (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of networked occupancy sensors and a thermostat that is controlled using data from the sensors. In a data network of occupancy sensors, the sensors (i) sense occupancy in a first space, such as a room within a building, and (ii) transmit data packets. Each of the data packets comprises an indication whose value is based in part on whether occupancy is sensed or not in the first spa...