ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,137, issued on April 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Video object detection and tracking method and apparatus" was invented by Jingtao Xu (Beijing), Yiwei Chen (Beijing), Changbeom Park (Seoul, South Korea), Hyunjeong Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Byung In Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Jaejoon Han (Seoul, South Korea), Qiang Wang (Beijing) and Jiaqian Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target object detection method and apparatus are provided. The target object detection method and apparatus are applicable to fields such as artificial intelligence, object tracking, object detection, and ima...