ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,226, issued on May 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"System and method for 3D object detection using multi-resolution features recovery using panoptic segmentation information" was invented by Hamidreza Fazlali (Hamilton, Canada), Richard Xu (Newmarket, Canada) and Bingbing Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for 3D object detection using multi-resolution features recovery using panoptic segmentation information. Panoptic segmentation predictions from a panoptic segmentation network and intermediate feature maps from one or more early layers of an object detection networ...