ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,985, issued on May 13, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Peak label object detection system and method of using" was invented by Nagma Samreen Khan (Tokyo), Kazumine Ogura (Tokyo), Masayuki Ariyoshi (Tokyo) and Eric Cosatto (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peak label object detection system (PLODS) includes an object size database configured to store information related to object size for a plurality of objects. The PLODS further includes a three-dimensional (3D) sensor database configured to store information related to parameters of a 3D sensor. The PLODS further includes an annotation database configured to stor...