ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,317, issued on June 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Monitoring device, tracking method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Shinichi Miyamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to providing a monitoring device that can improve the accuracy in tracking ships. A monitoring device (10) according to the present disclosure includes a position information acquiring unit (11) configured to acquire position information of an object to be tracked; an estimating unit (12) configured to estimate a position of the object to be tracked displayed in an image captured of a prede...