ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,526, issued on April 15, was assigned to Synchrony Bank (Stamford, Conn.).

"Systems and methods for machine vision based object recognition" was invented by Ujjval Patel (Stamford, Conn.), Xiaodan Du (Stamford, Conn.) and Lucas McDonald (Stamford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to object recognition and tracking using multi-camera driven machine vision. In one aspect, a method includes capturing, via a multi-camera system, a plurality of images of a user, each of the plurality of images representing the user from a unique angle; identifying, using the plurality of images, the user; detecting, th...