ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,168, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for object detection using image tiling" was invented by Jilin Tu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jiang Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Huizhong Chen (Mountain View, Calif.), Xiangxin Zhu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shengyang Dai (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system for detecting objects in an image can perform operations including generating an image pyramid that includes a first level corresponding with the image at a first resolution and a second level corresponding with the image at a second resolution. The operations can ...