ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,096, issued on March 11, was assigned to TerraClear Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Systems and methods to determine object position using images captured from mobile image collection vehicle" was invented by Brent Ronald Frei (Bellevue, Wash.), Dwight Galen McMaster (Burien, Wash.), Michael Racine (Bellevue, Wash.), Jacobus du Preez (Snoqualmie, Wash.), William David Dimmit (Seattle), Isabelle Butterfield (Bellevue, Wash.), Clifford Holmgren (Spanaway, Wash.), Dafydd Daniel Rhys-Jones (Tacoma, Wash.), Thayne Kollmorgen (Eugene, Ore.) and Vivek Ullal Nayak (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object identification method is disclosed...