ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,778, issued on June 17, was assigned to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method and system for keypoint detection based on neural networks" was invented by Csaba Gor (Budapest, Hungary), Peter Rohoska (Budapest, Hungary) and Andras Kalapos (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for determining keypoints of multiple objects included in an image and associating the keypoints to the respective objects based on a neural network and a post processing system coupled with the neural network."

The patent was filed on March 17, 2021, under A...