US Patent Issued to VelocityEHS Holdings on July 15 for "Vision-based hand grip recognition method and system for industrial ergonomics risk identification" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,359, issued on July 15, was assigned to VelocityEHS Holdings Inc. (Chicago).

"Vision-based hand grip recognition method and system for industrial ergonomics risk identification" was invented by Julia Penfield (Seattle), Francis Seunghyun Baek (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Richard Thomas Barker (West Chester, Ohio), Daeho Kim (Toronto) and SangHyun Lee (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, comprising: a computing device configured to obtain video signals of a worker performing a hand-related job at a workplace; and a computing server system configured to receive and process the video signals to identify hand grips and wrist...