US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 11 for "Object attribution derivation via crowd-sourced optical sensors" (California, North Carolina, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,605, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Object attribution derivation via crowd-sourced optical sensors" was invented by Craig M. Trim (Ventura, Calif.), Mauro Marzorati (Lutz, Fla.), Zachary A. Silverstein (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Martin G. Keen (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and computer program product for utilizing crowdsourcing of images captured by individuals to determine the status of a subject is provided. The embodiment may receive, by a processor associated with a broad beacon, an impulse. The embodiment may also transmit a reques...