US Patent Issued to Shopify on March 3 for "Artificial intelligence smoothed object detection and tracking in video" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,169, issued on March 3, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Artificial intelligence smoothed object detection and tracking in video" was invented by Neil Leonard Padgett (Toronto), Russ Maschmeyer (Berkeley, Calif.), Eric Andrew Florenzano (San Francisco), Brennan Letkeman (Calgary, Canada), James Lepp (Ottawa) and Diego Macario Bello (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for object detection and tracking in video that use at least two different AI-assisted object detection algorithms. A first AI-assisted object detection algorithm selected to be used to detect an object in a video frame and determine a mas...