US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on June 24 for "Intelligent IoT device with wireless-enabled device-free occupancy sensing" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,295, issued on June 24, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Intelligent IoT device with wireless-enabled device-free occupancy sensing" was invented by Costas Spanos (Layfayette, Calif.), Han Zou (Berkeley, Calif.) and Yuxun Zhou (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Internet of Things (IoT) device can include a switch module configured to control a power supply for at least one powered device, a WiFi module configured to perform wireless communication and occupancy activity sensing, and a processor configured to determine human activity recognition WiFi measurements from the WiFi modu...