ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,568, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Intrinsic Innovation LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for transparent object segmentation using polarization cues" was invented by Agastya Kalra (Palo Alto, Calif.), Vage Taamazyan (Moscow), Supreeth Krishna Rao (San Jose, Calif.), Kartik Venkataraman (San Jose, Calif.), Ramesh Raskar (Cambridge, Mass.) and Achuta Kadambi (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for computing a prediction on images of a scene includes: receiving one or more polarization raw frames of a scene, the polarization raw frames being captured with a polarizing filter at a...