US Patent Issued to Position Imaging on Nov. 18 for "Kiosk with object identification, registration, and tracking capabilities with light and/or audio guidance" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,703, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Position Imaging Inc. (Portsmouth, N.H.).

"Kiosk with object identification, registration, and tracking capabilities with light and/or audio guidance" was invented by Edward L. Hill (Conway, N.H.), Brian Martel (Farmington, N.H.) and Liisa Walsh (Hampton, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a kiosk and one or more computer-vision-based object tracking modules connected to the kiosk, each module comprising a camera and a processor configured to register and track objects within a field of view of the camera of that module."

The patent was filed on Jan. 25, 2021, under App...