ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,818, issued on June 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for on-device person recognition and provision of intelligent alerts" was invented by Mohammad Afshar (Mountain View, Calif.), Saajan Shridhar (Mountain View, Calif.), George Alban Heitz III (Mountain View, Calif.), Andrew C. Gallagher (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael C. Nechyba (Pittsburgh) and Joseph E. Roth (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present document describes systems and methods for on-device person recognition and provision of intelligent alerts. The system includes a decentralized multi-camera system for on-...