ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,892, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Systems and methods of automatically performing video analysis using predicted future events" was invented by Patricia S. Hogan (Raleigh, N.C.), Susan W. Brosnan (Raleigh, N.C.), Jessica K. Snead (Cary, N.C.) and Daniel R. Goins (Wake Forest, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of performing video analysis related to a video of an electronic terminal. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by an electronic device that includes processing circuitry. The method may include causing a display to play a video tha...