US Patent Issued to Benchmark Solutions on April 8 for "Systems and methods for generating use of force indicators" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,854, issued on April 8, was assigned to Benchmark Solutions LLC (Chicago).

"Systems and methods for generating use of force indicators" was invented by Nicholas Montgomery (Chicago) and Ron Huberman (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining a score reflecting the use of force that a police officer applied in an incident, comprising a computer system for collecting, storing and processing data relating to an incident involving the police officer's use of force in one or more interactions within an incident; the computer system iteratively generating scores for each use of force interactions within the...