ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,518, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus with object detection" was invented by Weiming Li (Beijing), Jiyeon Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Qiang Wang (Beijing), Hyun Sung Chang (Seoul, South Korea), Sunghoon Hong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Chao Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method with object detection includes obtaining a first point cloud feature based on point cloud data of an image and determining at least one object in the image based on the first point cloud feature."

The patent was filed on Nov. 18, 2021, under Application No. 17/...