ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,224, issued on May 27, was assigned to National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Object detection method and electronic apparatus" was invented by Jing-Ming Guo (Taipei, Taiwan), Jr-Sheng Yang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hung-Wei Wu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection method and an electronic apparatus are provided. A processor is configured to perform the following. An original image is received. A plurality of initial feature layers of different scales is extracted from the original image. A plurality of fused feature layers of different scales is obtained through an interpolati...