ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,996, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Context-aware selective sensor fusion method for multi-sensory computing systems" was invented by Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque (Irvine, Calif.), Arnav Vaibhav Malawade (Irvine, Calif.) and Trier Mortlock (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying a current context and determining a sensor combination based on the current environment. The method may comprise accepting a plurality of sensor outputs and implementing a CNN to convert the sensor outputs into a plurality of features that can be used to identi...