ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,152, issued on July 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Machine-vision person tracking in service environment" was invented by Chenyang Li (Bellevue, Wash.), Hongli Deng (Bellevue, Wash.), Gabriel Blanco Saldana (Kirkland, Wash.), Joseph Milan Filcik (Redmond, Wash.) and Ryan Savio Menezes (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to predict a traversal-time interval for traversal of a service queue comprises receiving video of a region including the service queue, recognizing in the video, via machine vision, a plurality of persons awaiting service within the region, estimating an...