ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,914, issued on June 3, was assigned to STRONG FORCE VCN PORTFOLIO 2019 LLC (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"Methods for detecting occupancy and determining value chain recommendations using radio signals" was invented by Stephen Paul Elias (Nashua, N.H.), Eric Roger Giler (Boston), Katherine Lavin Hall (Arlington, Mass.) and Charles Howard Cella (Pembroke, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system for determining occupancy in a space generally includes a transmitter radio device that transmits radio signals over a channel in the space; a receiver radio device that receives the transmitted radio signals that have traveled through t...