ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,293, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to THE CHAMBERLAIN GROUP LLC (Oak Brook, Ill.).

"Object monitoring system and methods" was invented by Jordan Ari Farber (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Nathan John Kopp (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect of the present disclosure, an object monitoring system for a secured area is provided. The object monitoring system includes an image sensor operable to capture an image of the secured area and a memory configured to store a machine learning algorithm trained to identify a vehicle in the secured area, the machine learning algorithm including feature maps of training images ca...