ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,677, issued on March 25, was assigned to Altum View Systems Inc. (Burnaby, Canada).

"Privacy-preserving human action recognition, storage, and retrieval via joint edge and cloud computing" was invented by Chi Chung Chan (Burnaby, Canada), Dong Zhang (Port Coquitlam, Canada), Yu Gao (North Vancouver, Canada), Andrew Tsun-Hong Au (Coquitlam, Canada), Zachary DeVries (Langley, Canada) and Jie Liang (Coquitlam, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method and system for efficiently and securely managing human motion data. In one aspect, a human-motion-data-managing system first receives a sequence of vi...