ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,524, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Artificial intelligence for animal identification based on animal behavior" was invented by Evgeny Shevtsov (Frisco, Texas), John Pistone (Cary, N.C.), Philip S. Brown (Cary, N.C.), Leon T. Cain II (Cary, N.C.) and Vladyslav Kolbasin (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for animal identification based on animal behavior. A first video depicting a first animal associated with a user during a first visit to an enterprise location is received. One or more attributes pertaining to the first animal or to the user are received...