US Patent Issued to The Boeing on March 18 for "Computing device and method for tracking movement of objects" (Virginia, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,780, issued on March 18, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Computing device and method for tracking movement of objects" was invented by Rahul C. Thakkar (Arlington, Va.), Michael J. Marich (Seal Beach, Calif.), Tad W. Kellogg (Bellevue, Wash.) and Surya K. Pandrangi (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device, method and computer program product track the movement of objects and identify potential collisions between object influence models of two or more objects. In a method, an object influence model is defined for a respective object with the object influence model having a shape and volume ...