ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,692, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Abandoned object detection" was invented by Charmaine Rui Qin Chan (Tanjung Bungah, Malaysia), Chia Chuan Wu (Butterworth, Malaysia), Marcos E. Carranza (Portland, Ore.), Ignacio Javier Alvarez Martinez (Portland, Ore.), Wei Seng Yeap (Penang, Malaysia) and Tung Lun Loo (Sungai Petani, Malaysia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques for abandoned object detection are described herein. a fence is established about a person and an object is detected within the fence. An entry is created in an object-person relationship data structure to establish a ...