ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,980, issued on April 14, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for child monitoring and risk management" was invented by Shehzad Ali (Seoul, South Korea), Md Tanvir Islam (Seoul, South Korea), Ik Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Abdul Khader Jilani Saudagar (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah M. Albarrak (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Khan Muhammad (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A child monitoring system that includes processing circuitry that receives image data and detects a presence of a child in the image data using a child detection module. After detectin...