ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,843, issued on April 15, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Computer vision system and methods for anomalous event detection" was invented by Matthew Julien (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are an apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium for detecting an anomalous behavior event for an environment and transmitting an alert of the event. An implementation may comprise detecting, in a plurality of image frames captured by a camera, when a person enters a region of interest, tracking movements of the person in the region of interest by comparing images of the...