ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,335, issued on June 24, was assigned to SRI International (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Automated collaboration skills assessment" was invented by Svati Dhamija (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Amir Tamrakar (Princeton, N.J.), Nonye M. Alozie (Redwood City, Calif.), Elizabeth McBride (Oakland, Calif.), Ajay Divakaran (Monmouth Junction, N.J.), Anirudh Som (Plainsboro, N.J.), Sujeong Kim (Hyattsville, Md.) and Bladimir Lopez-Prado (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a computer-implemented collaboration assessment model identifies actions of each of two or more individuals depicted in video data, identify, based at least ...