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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025

Filed:

Apr. 27, 2022
Applicant:

Emanate Wireless, Inc., Ijamsville, MD (US);

Inventors:

Gary L. Sugar, Shaker Heights, OH (US);

Yohannes Tesfai, Silver Spring, MD (US);

Chandra Vaidyanathan, Rockville, MD (US);

Neil R. Diener, Hudson, OH (US);

Assignee:

EMANATE WIRELESS, INC., Ijamsville, MD (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 4/33 (2018.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 4/33 (2018.02); H04W 4/80 (2018.02);
Abstract

A wireless room occupancy monitor, system and training method are provided. The room occupancy monitor includes an antenna array configured to detect wireless transmissions from a tag device; a wireless transceiver configured to receive the wireless transmissions detected by the antenna array and produce receive signals; a processor configured to process the receive signals; and a motion sensor coupled to the processor and configured to wake up the processor in response to detecting when the tag device enters or exits a room. The monitor is configured to be mounted proximate an entryway to the room. After the motion sensor wakes up the processor, the processor is configured to power on the wireless transceiver and run an algorithm on a sequence of received signal strength estimates and array response vectors derived from the receive signals to determine when the tag device has entered or exited the room via the entryway.


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