ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,260, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Steelcase Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).
"Occupancy sensing systems and methods" was invented by Michael Bloem (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Marcus Ward (Portland, Ore.) and Mychal Hall (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for improved occupancy sensing. The methods and systems can deploy various signal threshold adjustments and/or signal analysis algorithms in response to sensed signals having a given quality, such as exceeding a threshold. In some cases, signal thresholds are lowered following an initial generated signal exceeding a first, ...