ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,443, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Unicorn Labs LLC (Granite Bay, Calif.).
"Smart sensor" was invented by Kumar Veluswamy Senthil (Granite Bay, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Smart sensor methods and systems are described that improve on prior systems. An example device includes a sensor, a memory, a network connection, and two processing units, wherein a first processing unit compares current data provided by the first sensor to the reference data previously provided by the first sensor. Based on the result of the comparison, a second processing unit may be enabled to process the current data, or may be disabled to preve...