ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,552, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BLUEWRIST INC. (Ontario, Canada).

"Systems and methods for pose estimation via radial voting based keypoint localization" was invented by Michael Greenspan (Kingston, Canada), Mohsen Zand (Kingston, Canada), Seyed Ali Etemad (Ottawa) and Yangzheng Wu (Kingston, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate object pose determination via keypoint detection. A machine learning algorithm is employed to facilitate voting-based estimation of the locations of at least three keypoints. In some example embodiments, the machine learning algorithm is trained, ba...