ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,361, issued on July 8, was assigned to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong).

"Vision-based monitoring of site safety compliance based on worker re-identification and personal protective equipment classification" was invented by Kok Yiu Wong (Hong Kong), Pak Him Leung (Hong Kong) and Jack Chin Pang Cheng (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring safety compliance comprises a plurality of cameras and a computing system. The plurality of cameras are configured to obtain data, and the data comprises multiple images associated with one or more objects. The computing system is configured to ...