ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,077, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"Stampede detection" was invented by Aleksey Lipchin (Newton, Mass.), Maksim Bolonkin (Waltham, Mass.), Keshav T. Seshadri (Medford, Mass.) and Sergey Veselkov (Ashland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples provide an imaging system including an electronic processor configured to obtain video data of a scene including a region of interest including a plurality of frames, determine a total number of detected humans in the region of interest of a current frame of the plurality of frames, determine a number of running humans in the region of interest o...