ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,206, issued on July 1, was assigned to HANWHA AEROSPACE Co. LTD. (Changwon-si, South Korea).

"Unmanned combat vehicle and target detection method thereof" was invented by Jin Mo Song (Changwon-si, South Korea), Young Jin Seo (Changwon-si, South Korea) and Jae Chan Park (Changwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned vehicle includes: at least one camera configured to obtain an image; and an image processor configured to: detect an object from the image; set a region of interest at the object in the image; and detect a target within the region of interest by detecting a change in pixel values from the region of int...