CpE techs granted patents
Date Posted: January 25, 2021 at 11:48 AM
Technopreneurship in the University continues to make strides as two technologies by students from the Computer Engineering Department (CpE) were granted patents by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL).
Street Violence Surveillance and Alert System and Methods Thereof by Dylan Josh Lopez, Jay-ar Lalata, Franz Joseph Romero, Enrico Amante and Jayson Toledo and Wearable Personal Locator by Luisito Lacatan, Cedrex Bolasoc, Gabriel Babierra and Gabrielle Abania were both recognized by the IPOPHL-Bureau of Patents.
Both techs’ utility models were issued seven-year patents beginning January 14 and 24, respectively.
Street Violence Surveillance and Alert System and Methods Thereof has its utility model “provide a graphical user interface that displays the livestream video data from a surveillance module situated at public places, a data interpretation module capable of determining presence of violence and/ or help requests in video live streams from the said surveillance module, and is capable of generating audio and/or visual alerts if there are violence and/or help requests.”
The Wearable Personal Locator, meanwhile, “relates to a process for a search and rescue device for locating and communicating vitality of a person in an emergency situation and an android application that maps the estimated location of the users. It has the advantage of showing the rescuer the user’s location and current level of vitality thus enabling rescuers to do a triage for their rescue.”
Patent registrations of both techs are until 2026.
