ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,892, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Explainability for event alerts in video data" was invented by Hugo Latapie (Long Beach, Calif.), Ozkan Kilic (Long Beach, Calif.), Adam James Lawrence (Pasadena, Calif.), Gaowen Liu (Austin, Texas) and Ramana Rao V. R. Kompella (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device represents spatial characteristics over time of an object in video data as one or more timeseries. The device detects an event based on a rate of change of behavioral regimes associated with different portions of the one or more timeseries. The device...