ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,210, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Mux Inc. (San Francisco).

"Video analytics system" was invented by Adam Brown (San Francisco), Jonathan Dahl (San Francisco), Steven Heffernan (San Francisco), Justin Sanford (San Francisco), Matthew Ward (San Francisco), Scott Kidder (San Francisco), Benjamin Dodson (San Francisco) and Alex Diehl (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beac...