US Patent Issued to Mississippi State University on May 26 for "Mobile markerless motion capture for movement data collection in all environments" (Mississippi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,944, issued on May 26, was assigned to Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Miss.).

"Mobile markerless motion capture for movement data collection in all environments" was invented by Reuben F. Burch V (Starkville, Miss.), David N. Saucier (Starkville, Miss.), John Carver Middleton (Starkville, Miss.), Harish Chander (Starkville, Miss.), Timothy C. Teer (Starkville, Miss.), Mohamed El Mehdi Ouhabi (Starkville, Miss.) and Christopher White (Starkville, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises: instructing a leader drone in a drone swarm to move to a first position; instructing a first follower drone in the dr...