ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,654, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"Searchable video with binary vectors" was invented by Dharanish Kedarisetti (Woburn, Mass.) and Yanyan Hu (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An event detected in video is encoded as a binary vector. A set of binary vectors representative of the video may be so generated and stored in a queryable datastore. A query is encoded as a binary vector representative of a queried event. The query binary vector is compared to the set of binary vectors generated for the video and a result indicative of a similarity of the query binary vector to the set of bi...