ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,699, issued on March 18, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Detection of camera with impaired view" was invented by Shaurye Agarwal (Evanston, Ill.), Akshay Raj Dhamija (Campbell, Calif.), Howard Yu (San Francisco), Margaret Irene Finch (Austin, Texas), Jing Wang (Toronto), Rohit Annigeri (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sharan Srinivasan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yan Wang (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Nathan Hurst (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and programs are presented for detecting impaired views in monitoring cameras. One method includes training a rotation classifier with unsupervised learning utilizing a ...