ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,605, issued on March 18, was assigned to COM-IoT Technologies (Dubai, United Arab Emirates).

"Individual identification and tracking via combined video and LiDAR systems" was invented by Haitham Khedr (Cairo) and Ahmed Madkor (Dubai, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Individual identification and tracking are provided via combined video and LiDAR systems. In various embodiments, a virtual plane may be generated. A video frame including the virtual plane is recorded via a first imaging modality. One or more objects are detected in the video frame when the one or more objects enters the virtual plane. An identifier i...