ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,700, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS Ltd. (Dublin).

"Automated activity detection" was invented by Robert P. Dooley (Dublin, Calif.), Dylan James Snow (Concord, Calif.), Michael Kuniavsky (San Francisco) and Ronak Kumar Bhatia (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are directed to receiving a set of time series image frames within a time period including a plurality of time points; identifying a first entity, wherein the first entity is coupled with a plurality of first positions corresponding to the plurality of time points; identifying a second entity, wherein the second enti...