US Patent Issued to Hinge Health on Aug. 25 for "Approaches to estimating hand pose with independent detection of hand presence in digital images of individuals performing physical activities and systems for implementing the same" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,613, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hinge Health Inc. (San Francisco).

"Approaches to estimating hand pose with independent detection of hand presence in digital images of individuals performing physical activities and systems for implementing the same" was invented by Abel Gonzalez Garcia (Montreal) and Colin Joseph Brown (Saskatoon, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Introduced here are computer-implemented platforms (also referred to as "pose monitoring platforms") that are designed to improve adherence to, and success of, programs requiring performance of physical activities. As part of a program, a participant may be requ...