ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,811, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Permutation invariant convolution (PIC) for recognizing long-range activities, generating global representation of input streams and classifying activity based on global representation" was invented by Noureldien Mahmoud Elsayed Hussein (Amsterdam), Efstratios Gavves (Amsterdam) and Arnold Wilhelmus Maria Smeulders (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recognizing long-range activities in videos includes segmenting an input video stream to generate multiple frame sets. For each of the frame sets, a frame with a highest likelihood of including one or ...