ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,404, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PUSHPIN TECHNOLOGY LLC (Evergreen, Colo.).

"System and method for transforming video data into directional object count" was invented by Terrance Edward Boult (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a computer-implemented system and method for transforming video data into directional object counts. The method of transforming video data is uniquely efficient in that it uses only a single column or row of pixels in a video camera to define the background from a moving object, count the number of objects and determine their direction. By taking an image of a ...