ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,371, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Behavioral group analytics for video" was invented by Hugo Latapie (Long Beach, Calif.), Gaowen Liu (Austin, Texas), Ozkan Kilic (Long Beach, Calif.), Adam James Lawrence (Pasadena, Calif.) and Ramana Rao V.R. Kompella (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device represents each of a plurality of objects depicted in video data over time as a set of timeseries of key points associated with that object. The device forms groups of objects based on their associated sets of timeseries. The device identifies an anomalous beha...