ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,487, issued on July 8, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).
"Identifying an object in an area of interest" was invented by Stephen Michael Lebak (St. Louis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and system for identifying an object in an area of interest. The area of interest is enclosed by a boundary comprising a plurality of line segments extending between vertex points. A reference point relative to the area of interest and a reference direction from the reference point are determined and used to determine a vertex angle of each vertex point. The reference point and reference direction also are used to de...