ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,508, issued on June 10, was assigned to 3I INC. (Daegu, South Korea).

"Method for tracking object by controlling a rotation of a cradle using a portable terminal and system thereof" was invented by Ken Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Ji Wuck Jung (Goyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of tracking an object performed in a portable terminal linked with a rotatable cradle so that a rotation of the rotatable cradle is controlled to track the object, and the method includes receiving frame images captured in a forward direction at a preset frame rate, and detecting whether an object exists in the frame image for each...