ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,267, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Spatial regime change detection for video analytics" 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 tracks an object in video data captured by one or more cameras. The device represents spatial characteristics of the object over time as one or more timeseries. The device associates different portions of the one or more timeseries with behavior...