ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,672, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sensormatic Electronics LLC (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Computer vision systems and methods for detecting person dwell time" was invented by Karthik Jayaraman (Coimbatore, India), Gopi Subramanian (Delray Beach, Fla.), Rajavenkateswaran Rajamanickam (Coimbatore, India) and Cory Olog Root (Delray Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for computer vision detection of dwell time, comprising receiving a plurality of indications of persons entering an environment over a period of time. The implementations further include ad...