ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,117, issued on April 22, was assigned to Hayden AI Technologies Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for automated license plate recognition" was invented by Morgan Kohler (Mill Valley, Calif.) and Bo Shen (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus for automated license plate recognition and methods for training a machine learning model to undertake automated license plate recognition. For example, a method can comprise dividing an image or video frame comprising a license plate into a plurality of image patches, determining a positional vector for each of the image pat...