ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,962, issued on April 8, was assigned to Wiliot Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Determining occupancy level of items placed on a surface using low energy sensing tags" was invented by Amnon Wahle (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Ido Zelman (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Tsvika Rabkin (Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Israel) and Gidon Azaryev (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining and monitoring occupancy level of items placed on a surface are provided. The system comprises receiving frequency words from tags placed on the surface, wherein each tag is configured to transmit a plurality of frequency words; extracting at least o...