ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,383, issued on May 13, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Tracking apparatus, tracking method, and non-transitory storage medium storing tracking program" was invented by Mitsutoshi Morinaga (Kariya, Japan), Koichiro Suzuki (Tokyo), Chiharu Yamano (Tokyo) and Norikazu Ikoma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracking apparatus which tracks a target includes a predilection unit, correction unit, and updating unit. The prediction unit predicts the state distribution of the target at a specific time. The correction unit, for at least one observation point of the target, that is observed at the specific time, uses a likel...