ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,919, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Filtering false positive computer-vision-based object detection events" was invented by Jhih-Yuan Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Ting Liu (Taipei, Taiwan), Meng-Jiun Chiou (Taipei, Taiwan), Yu Luo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Meng-Ru Hsieh (Tainan, Taiwan), Hua-Wei Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Shao-Hang Hsieh (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yi-An Chen (Yilan County, Taiwan) and Yang Liu (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for suppressing false positive notifications for detected objects. In various examples, first bounding box data...