ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,757, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle pose management" was invented by Sushruth Nagesh (Mountain View, Calif.), Shubham Shrivastava (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Punarjay Chakravarty (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive at least one image frame from at least one camera, the at least one image frame showing a vehicle; determine at least one baseline pixel coordinate within one image frame for the vehicle; initialize a plurality of initial poses for th...