ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,277, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, N.Y.).

"Interactive video surveillance as an edge service using unsupervised feature queries" was invented by Yu Chen (Vestal, N.Y.) and Seyed Yahya Nikouei (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for querying data obtained from a distributed sensor network, comprising: receiving sensor data representing an aspect of an environment with a sensor of the distributed sensor network; communicating a representation of the sensor data to a fog node through an automated communication network; determining, by th...