US Patent Issued to Centre for Intelligent Multidimensional Data Analysis on March 11 for "System and method for detecting a facial apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,180, issued on March 11, was assigned to Centre for Intelligent Multidimensional Data Analysis Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"System and method for detecting a facial apparatus" was invented by Xinqi Fan (Hong Kong) and Hong Yan (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting a facial apparatus including a facial image processor arranged to process an image or a stream of images to detect a facial apparatus on one or more faces represented within the image or the stream of images; and generating a notification output based on a detection of the facial apparatus on the one or more faces."

The patent was filed on Oct....