US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 4 for "Crowd density analysis with multiple regions" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,314, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Crowd density analysis with multiple regions" was invented by Doga Tav (Fredericton, Canada) and Matthias Seul (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for crowd density analysis with multiple regions is provided. The embodiment may include identifying three or more local measurement nodes. The embodiment may also include defining one or more bins, each bin comprising at least three local measurement nodes from the three or more local measurement nodes....