ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,184, issued on March 11, was assigned to Tobii Technologies Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Methods and systems to predict activity in a sequence of images" was invented by Alexandru Malaescu (Bucharest, Romania), Dan Filip (Bucharest, Romania), Mihai Ciuc (Bucharest, Romania), Liviu-Cristian Dutu (Bucharest, Romania) and Madalin Dumitru-Guzu (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to determine activity in a sequence of successively acquired images of a scene, comprises: acquiring the sequence of images; for each image in the sequence of images, forming a feature block of features extracted from the image and determinin...