ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,490, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods, systems, and media for identifying human coactivity in images and videos using neural networks" was invented by Walid Mohamed Aly Ahmed (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and processor-readable media for classifying human coactivity performed jointly by two humans shown in an image or a sequence of frames of a video. A 2D convolutional neural network is used to identify key points on the human body, such as human body joints, visible within the image or within each frame, for each of the two people perf...