ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,329, issued on June 2, was assigned to Sensormatic Electronics LLC (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for object detection in an environment" was invented by Michael C. Stewart (Delray Beach, Fla.), Natasha Mishell Astudillo (Pembroke Pines, Fla.), Harsh Gaurangbhai Motka (Surendranagar, India) and Joseph Celi (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to a vision system that detects objects moving in an environment. The vision system detects objects that crossed a boundary of an environment during a first period of time, and determines a count of objects that crossed the ...