ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,264, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Method and system for efficient object density estimation using dynamic input resolution" was invented by Rajkiran Kumar Gottumukkal (Bangalore, India) and Deepak Chembakassery Rajendran (Thrissur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for counting objects in an image, including receiving a first image having a first size greater than a size threshold; formatting the first image into a second image having a second size less than the first size; estimating, using a first object coun...