ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,336, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Retrocausal Inc. (Redmond, Wash.).

"Machine learning based systems and methods for optimizing industrial processes by analyzing layouts of environments" was invented by Muhammad Zeeshan Zia (Sammamish, Wash.), Quoc-Huy Tran (Redmond, Wash.) and Andrey Konin (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ML-based method and system for optimizing industrial processes, is disclosed. The ML-based method includes: obtaining image data and video data associated with objects, from video capturing units installed on industrial floors; obtaining positioning information of the objects from positioning ...