US Patent Issued to Michael Stapleton Associates on Jan. 20 for "Canine inspection recording" (New Jersey, New York, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,967, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Michael Stapleton Associates Ltd. (New York).

"Canine inspection recording" was invented by Marc Weathers (Mahopac, N.Y.), Tamer Nasr (Piscataway, N.J.), Ahmad Eied (Cary, N.C.) and Paul Bender (Clayton, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A command is transmitted from a mobile computing device to a camera external to the mobile computing device. The command instructs the camera to capture video data of a canine sniff inspection of a parcel. The video data of the canine sniff inspection is obtained at the mobile computing device from the camera. The video data is compressed at the mobile comput...