ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,314, issued on March 4, was assigned to Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Jiangsu, China).

"Method and system for recognizing human action in apron based on thermal infrared vision" was invented by Meng Ding (Nanjing, China), Yuanyuan Ding (Nanjing, China), Xianghao Kong (Nanjing, China), Yiming Xu (Nanjing, China), Yi Wu (Nanjing, China) and Wei Lu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a method and system for recognizing human action in an apron based on thermal infrared vision, the method comprises: acquiring a plurality of video sequences from an infrared monitoring video...