ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,041, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to HANWHA VISION Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Monitoring apparatus and system" was invented by Ho Jung Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Joo Bog Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Mi Ran Cho (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Yeon Woo Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a monitoring apparatus including a communication unit which receives streaming data and metadata of a video from each of a plurality of cameras installed indoors when the cameras obtain videos by capturing specific areas, respectively; a metadata analysis unit which analyzes the received metadat...