ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,655, issued on March 25, was assigned to HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for detection of three-dimensional objects and electronic device" was invented by Chih-Te Lu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chieh Lee (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chin-Pin Kuo (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detection of three-dimensional (3D) objects on or around a roadway by machine learning, applied in an electronic device, obtains images of road, inputs the images into a trained object detection model, and determines categories of objects in the images, two-dimensional (2D) bounding boxes of the objects, ...