ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,730, issued on April 15, was assigned to Summer Robotics Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).
"Virtual fences in air, water, and space" was invented by Gerard Dirk Smits (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Steven Dean Gottke (Concord, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to perceiving scene features using event sensors and image sensors. Enclosures mounted may be on structures arranged to establish a boundary where each enclosure includes an event camera, a beam generator, or a frame camera. The beam generators may be employed to scan paths across objects in a scene that may be outside the boundary. Events may be determined based on...