ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,297, issued on April 22, was assigned to NEX Team Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Pose comparison systems and methods using mobile computing devices" was invented by Qi Zhang (Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong), Keng Fai Lee (Cupertino, Calif.), Daniel Dejos (Seattle), Jorge Fino (San Jose, Calif.) and Long Mak (Shatin, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for pose comparison, interactive physical gaming, and remote fitness training on a user computing device. The methods and systems are configured to first receive a reference feature generated from a frame of a reference video, the reference feature computed fr...