US Patent Issued to Hinge Health on May 27 for "Method and system for symmetric recognition of handed activities" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,855, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hinge Health Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method and system for symmetric recognition of handed activities" was invented by Colin Brown (Saskatoon, Canada) and Andrey Tolstikhin (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes an activity recognition system for asymmetric (e.g., left- and right-handed) activities that leverages the symmetry intrinsic to most human and animal bodies. Specifically, described is 1) a human activity recognition system that only recognizes handed activities but is inferenced twice, once with input flipped, to identify both left- and right-handed activitie...