ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,259, issued on March 3, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF JEDDAH (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

"Security monitoring management system and method" was invented by Yousef S Alsahafi (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Fahad Alsolami (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) and Abdullah Albahdal (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for real-time security monitoring within a venue includes capturing an image of a first attendee that exhibits an abnormal behavior, detecting a seat location occupied by the first attendee, in a seating area of the venue, progressively searching larger subsets of neighbors occupying neighboring seats of the occupied seat l...