ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,896, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to KEISUUGIKEN Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Monitoring device, monitoring method, and program" was invented by Hisanori Date (Hyogo, Japan) and Naohiro Hayaishi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The monitoring device includes a captured image acquisition unit that captures a captured image of a monitoring target, a determination unit that determines a type of the monitoring target included in the captured image, an abnormality detection unit that detects an abnormality by applying the captured image to a monitoring model corresponding to the type of the monitoring target determined by the det...