US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on May 20 for "Systems and methods of detecting incorrect mask usage" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,813, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods of detecting incorrect mask usage" was invented by Terence Neill (Lisburn, Great Britain) and Alexis B. Ehrlich (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example aspects include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium of enforcing a mask wearing policy, comprising monitoring video frames of one or more video feeds. The aspects further include detecting one or more persons in the video frames. Additionally, the aspects further include determining whether the one or more persons are in violation o...