ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,306, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to 20/20 Robotics LLC (Durham, N.C.).

"Object tracking and zone control system" was invented by Michael Brendan Forbes (Durham, N.C.) and Ryan D. Norkett (Lacona, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for tracking objects in a production process and controlling aspects of the production process utilize images from a plurality of cameras positioned above or around various locations of the production process, which transmit images to a server, in various embodiments. The server uses machine learning or artificial intelligence to locate and track the objects within the fields of view of the var...