ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,549, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CANOO TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Torrence, Calif.).

"Vanishing point determination, symmetry-based boundary refinement, and component detection for vehicle object detection or other applications" was invented by Dae Jin Kim (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), David R. Arft (Torrance, Calif.) and Jongmoo Choi (Gardena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining, using at least one processing device, a vanishing point and a boundary based on image data associated with a scene, where the boundary is associated with a detected object within the scene. The method also includes repeatedly...