US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises on Jan. 13 for "System and method for verifying proper usage of passenger restraints" (Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,174, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"System and method for verifying proper usage of passenger restraints" was invented by Bryant D. Boyle (Montverde, Fla.), Gary D. Markowitz (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Clifford Aron Wilkinson (Clermont, Fla.), Ching-Chien Chen (Arcadia, Calif.), Gregory Brooks Hale (Orlando, Fla.) and Jeremy Eaton (Winter Garden, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A restraint verification platform may obtain video data video data of a passenger in a passenger seat. The restraint verification platform may analyze the video data using one or more machine learning mod...