ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,298, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ULTRAHAPTICS IP TWO Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Biometric aware object detection and tracking" was invented by Maxwell Sills (San Francisco), Aaron Smith (San Francisco), David S. Holz (San Francisco) and Hongyuan (Jimmy) He (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed can provide methods and systems for identifying users while capturing motion and/or determining the path of a portion of the user with one or more optical, acoustic or vibrational sensors. Implementations can enable use of security aware devices, e.g., automated teller machines (ATMs), cash registers...