US Patent Issued to Verkada on July 14 for "Voting-based multi-plate recognition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,663, issued on July 14, was assigned to Verkada Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Voting-based multi-plate recognition" was invented by Mayank Gupta (Foster City, Calif.), Suraj Arun Vathsa (Irvine, Calif.), Song Cao (Foster City, Calif.), Yi Xu (Belmont, Calif.), Yuanyuan Chen (San Mateo, Calif.) and Yunchao Gong (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and related system operations includes, determining, for each respective frame of a frame sequence, a respective bounding box that surrounds a respective sub-image of the respective frame, determining a respective string and respective confidence values associated with the...