ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,589, issued on July 21, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Person tracking system, person tracking method, and storage medium" was invented by Takashi Yoshikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a person tracking system, a calculation processing means performs processing for detecting a first person from an image, and calculates a first feature vector representing a feature of the detected first person. A data transmission processing means acquires a hash value corresponding to a key generated based on information relating to the first feature vector, and stores feature data including the first feature vector and the key in a...