US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on Feb. 3 for "Methods for improving guard safety in a correctional facility using a video surveillance system" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,044, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Methods for improving guard safety in a correctional facility using a video surveillance system" was invented by Chaithanya Holla (Bangalore, India) and Lalitha M. Eswara (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Guard safety in a corrections facility may be improved by processing a video stream to identify guards that are present based at least in part on their apparel and to identify inmates that are present based at least in part on their apparel. A determination is made as to a number of guards that are present and a number of inmates th...