ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,013, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Track associations at least partially based on low confidence detections" was invented by David Aaron Schwartz (Moorpark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques for performing track associations at least partially based on low confidence detections. For object trackers, which rely on measurement detections that are associated with a reported confidence, there is no direct tradeoff between a true positive track rate and a false positive track rate that applies to improving the accuracy of state estimates of tra...