ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,392, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to VELOCITYEHS HOLDINGS INC. (Chicago).

"Automated industrial ergonomics risk root cause identification and management" was invented by Julia Penfield (Seattle), Richard Thomas Barker (West Chester, Ohio) and Veeru Talreja (Morgantown, W.va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for identifying industrial ergonomics risk root-causes and providing risk control actions, comprising: a computing device configured to obtain video signals of a worker performing a job at a workplace; and a computing server system configured to receive and process the video signals to determine joint locations of the work...