ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,255, issued on May 20, was assigned to Gait IQ Inc. (San Antonio).

"Video-based gait characterization" was invented by Barbara Schnan Mastronardi (San Antonio), Nishanth Sivalingam (TamilNadu, India), Joshua Pradeep (Tamilnadu, India), Madhusoodhan Sathyanarayanan (Chennai, India) and Richard Jerome Morris (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gait characterization and analysis based on a monocular video of a walking subject are achieved, in various embodiments, by processing the video using one or more machine-learning models to predict three-dimensional (3D) keypoint coordinates for a set of anatomical keypoints of the subjec...