ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,929, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to VELOCITYEHS HOLDINGS INC. (Chicago).

"Vision-based three-dimensional human pose estimation system and method for ergonomic risk assessment" was invented by Julia Penfield (Seattle), Veeru Talreja (Morgantown, W.va.), Leyang Wen (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Rick Barker (West Chester, Ohio), Daeho Kim (Toronto), Meiyin Liu (New Brunswick, N.J.) and SangHyun Lee (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are vision-based three-dimensional (3D) pose estimation system and method for ergonomic risk assessment. An example system may comprise a computing device configured to obtain a mono...