ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,604, issued on Nov. 11.
"Computer vision monitoring and prediction of ailments" was invented by Kevin Li (New York) and Anthony Ko-Ping Chien (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile or stationary device generates video data of a human's or an animal's movements. The device may then perform a vision analysis to predict an ailment, based on the video data. The video data may be compared to historical data to determine a difference in the human's or the animal's movements. If the difference is within a threshold value, then the vision analysis may infer that the human or animal is moving as expected. However, if the...