US Patent Issued to Daitrix on Aug. 25 for "Video analytics to detect instances of possible animal abuse based on mathematical models" (Maryland, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,573, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Daitrix LLC.

"Video analytics to detect instances of possible animal abuse based on mathematical models" was invented by Huiping Li (Clarksville, Md.) and Michael Fox (Sparks, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video analytics are used to evaluate interactions between humans and animals and identify possible occurrences of animal abuse in an objective manner. The video analytics system processes successive video frames to identify objects of interest (e.g., humans, animals, tools/weapons, etc.), creates mathematical models of such objects (e.g., essentially stick-figure models), analyzes movem...