ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,256, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TIANJIN UNIVERSITY (Tianjin, China).

"Device for efficiently extracting adaptively selected contactless multi-player heart rates" was invented by Guangjian Ni (Tianjin, China), Wei Kang (Tianjin, China) and Zihao Xu (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a device for efficiently extracting adaptively selected contactless multi-player heart rates includes: an acquisition module that covers a court to obtain videos from a plurality of angles during players training; a valid player obtaining module configured to remove players with low contributions to traini...