ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,977, issued on May 13, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"System and methods for content and contention-aware approximate object detection" was invented by Somali Chaterji (West Lafayette, Ind.), Saurabh Bagchi (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Ran Xu (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for content- and contention-aware object detection are provided. A system may receive video information and perform object detection and object tracking based on an execution configuration. The system may approximate an optimized execution configuration. To approximate the optimized executi...