ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,455, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Scaffolding safety compliance detection using computer vision" was invented by Abdullah M. Alanazi (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Naif R. Almutairi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media can include receiving, by a hardware processor, one or more images of a worksite that includes a scaffold; identifying, by the hardware processor operating computer vision processing, a presence of a person on the scaffold; identifying, by the hardware processor operating image analysis processing, o...