US Patent Issued to Getac Technology, WHP Workflow Solutions on April 15 for "Automated camera activation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,077, issued on April 15, was assigned to Getac Technology Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan) and WHP Workflow Solutions Inc. (North Charleston, S.C.).

"Automated camera activation" was invented by Thomas Guzik (Edina, Minn.) and Muhammad Adeel (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automated camera activation are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, from a sensor, sensor data. The actions further include, based on the sensor data, determining that a firearm has been removed from a holster. The actions f...