ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,105, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"Method and system for a lockout in response to blocked view" was invented by Jin Hoe Phua (Bayan Lepas, Malaysia), Hui Boon Chua (Batu Pahat, Malaysia) and Zhe Qian Goh (Simpang Ampat, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for a lockout in response to a blocked view is disclosed. The method is carried out within at least one network. The at least one network includes at least one network addressable machine and at least one fixed-location camera having a respective Field Of View (FOV). The method includes creating an operation dependency...