ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,917, issued on May 6, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Object pose estimation system, execution method thereof and graphic user interface" was invented by Dong-Chen Tsai (Miaoli, Taiwan), Ping-Chang Shih (Yuanlin, Taiwan), Yu-Ru Huang (Hualien, Taiwan) and Hung-Chun Chou (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object pose estimation system, an execution method thereof and a graphic user interface are provided. The execution method of the object pose estimation system includes the following steps. A feature extraction strategy of a pose estimation unit is determined by a feature ex...