ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,770, issued on May 20, was assigned to VergeSense Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method for detecting and responding to conditions within a space" was invented by Kelby Green (Mountain View, Calif.), Kanav Dhir (Mountain View, Calif.), Dan Ryan (Mountain View, Calif.), Damien Leostic (Mountain View, Calif.), Marine Dunoguier (Mountain View, Calif.) and Habib Bukhari (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting conditions within a space includes: accessing a corpus of object lists generated based on objects detected in images captured by a population of sensor blocks; compiling locations of a set of obj...