US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Feb. 24 for "Bradykinesia motion analysis for behavior identification by determining motion center and velocity from the video frames" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,990, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Bradykinesia motion analysis for behavior identification by determining motion center and velocity from the video frames" was invented by Jianping Wu (Medina, Minn.), Chih Lai (Woodbury, Minn.) and Dwight E. Nelson (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and techniques for analyzing video information to objectively identify patient behavior are disclosed. A system may analyze obtained video information of patient motion during a period of time to track one or more anatomical regions through a plurality of frames of the video information ...