ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,822, issued on June 23, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for determining user intent based on image-captured user actions" was invented by Saikiran N. Chavali (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may process an image, with a machine learning model, to identify a user in the image and may generate a user identifier for the user. The device may process a portion of the image that includes the user, with the machine learning model, to identify pose points for the user. The device may calculate pose angles of the user based on the pose points and may determine a...