ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,810, issued on June 17, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Object detection" was invented by Yun Li (Lund, Sweden), Alexander Hunt (Tygelsjo, Sweden), Hector Caltenco (Oxie, Sweden) and Saeed Bastani (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting objects in a video includes, for each image in the video, determining a degree of correlation between the image and at least one preceding image in a sequence of images; and obtaining a first measure of energy consumption required for performing an object detection process on the image, obtaining a second measure of energy consumption req...