US Patent Issued to Hill-Rom Services on May 13 for "Enhanced image-based tracking in clinical environments" (Indiana, New York, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,029, issued on May 13, was assigned to Hill-Rom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).

"Enhanced image-based tracking in clinical environments" was invented by Susan A. Kayser (Batesville, Ind.), Gene J. Wolfe (Pittsford, N.Y.), David L Ribble (Indianapolis), Olivia Gubitose Boyce (Cincinnati) and Craig M. Meyerson (Syracuse, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes identifying images of an individual and determining, based on the images, a facial feature of the individual. The example method further includes determining a contextual feature of the individual. Based on the facial feature and the contextual feature, a...