US Patent Issued to Getac Technology, WHP Workflow Solutions on Nov. 25 for "Multimedia object tracking and merging" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,111, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Getac Technology Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan) and WHP Workflow Solutions Inc. (North Charleston, S.C.).

"Multimedia object tracking and merging" was invented by Muhammad Adeel (Edina, Minn.) and Thomas Guzik (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In multimedia object tracking and merging of tracked objects, an object is tracked through frames of multimedia content until a frame appears in which the tracked object is not detected. A first track is designated as one or more consecutive frames in which the tracked object is detected, the first track ending at the first frame. Tracking continue...