US Patent Issued to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY on Sept. 8 for "System and method for the automatic detection of openly-carried firearms" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,406, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh).

"System and method for the automatic detection of openly-carried firearms" was invented by Marios Savvides (Pittsburgh), Chenchen Zhu (Pittsburgh) and Nnamdi Adom (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system and method for the automatic detection of persons engaged in the open carry of firearms at a venue. The system and method comprise strategically placed cameras at the venue which are connected to edge devices which extract frames from video generated by the cameras. The video frames are sent to a server for analysis by an A...