ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,773, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to A.I.O. (Pessac, France).

"Method for analyzing the movements of a person, and device for implementing same" was invented by Cyril Dane (Talence, France) and Florian Boudinet (Pessac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for analyzing at least one sequence of movements performed by a person, including steps of segmenting the sequence of movements into time units, each associated with a time (t0 to tn), determining for each instant, positions of at least some characteristic points of the person using an acquisition system providing raw data, assigning at each instance at least one posit...