ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,066, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Pivotal Vision LLC (Bloomington, Minn.).
"Motion-validating remote monitoring system" was invented by John R. Gornick (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.) and Craig B. Moksnes (St. Paul, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of autonomously monitoring a remote site, including the steps of locating a primary detector at a site to be monitored; creating one or more geospatial maps of the site using an overhead image of the site; calibrating the primary detector to the geospatial map using a detector-specific model; detecting an object in motion at the site; tracking the moving object on the geo...