US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Oct. 28 for "Automated event witness identification" (Georgia, New Jersey, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,471, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Automated event witness identification" was invented by Adrianne Luu (Atlanta), Robert Moton Jr. (Alpharetta, Ga.), Ryan Schaub (Berkeley Lake, Ga.), Timothy Knezevich (Mentor, Ohio), Barrett Kreiner (Woodstock, Ga.), Wei Wang (Harrison, N.J.), Ari Craine (Marietta, Ga.) and Robert Koch (Peachtree Corners, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology is directed towards efficiently identifying a first entity (e.g., a user or sensor) as a potential witness to an event. A first dataset describing event time data and event location data of...