ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,066, issued on April 22, was assigned to Iris Automation Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for dynamic object tracking using a single camera mounted on a vehicle" was invented by Alexander Harmsen (San Francisco), James Howard (San Francisco) and Patricio Alejandro Galindo (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-contained, low-cost, low-weight guidance system for vehicles is provided. The guidance system can include an optical camera, a case, a processor, a connection between the processor and an on-board control system, and computer algorithms running on the processor. The guidance system can be integrated with ...