ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,364, issued on July 8, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Image processing for distinguishing individuals in groups" was invented by Brent Vance Zucker (Roswell, Ga.), Adam Justin Lieberman (Suwanee, Ga.) and Nathan Somavarapu (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cameras capture time-stamped images of predefined areas. At least one image includes a representation of multiple individuals in a group of individuals. Attributes retained with each individual are combined with a limb and pose recognition to properly identify each individual of the group within the image."

The patent was filed on April 23, 2021, under Applicatio...