ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,421, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to INBIC INC. (Seongnam, South Korea).

"System and method for object detection and tracking by using edge CCTV" was invented by Hyo Chul Ji (Seongnam, South Korea) and Hee Am Seo (Paju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system and a method for object detection and tracking by using an edge CCTV, the system and method determining whether an object is identical and tracking same by collectively considering target object characteristics having a relatively small amount of data which is processable according to the specifications of an edge CCTV, wherein, if...