US Patent Issued to Northeast Maritime Institute on Sept. 30 for "Methods and apparatus for online test taking" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,283, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Northeast Maritime Institute Inc. (Fairhaven, Mass.).

"Methods and apparatus for online test taking" was invented by Eric Roger Dawicki (Fairhaven, Mass.), Akkhilaysh Kushal Shetty (New Bedford, Mass.) and Angela Michele Dawicki (Fairhaven, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques described herein relate to methods and systems for administering an online examination to a user. A pre-examination scan is performed based on first image data of an environment of the user that is received from a camera. Responsive to an indication from the pre-examination scan that the environment is ap...