US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, The Regents of the University of California, Toyota Jidosha on Feb. 25 for "Systems and methods for tracking occluded objects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,688, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.), The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for tracking occluded objects" was invented by Pavel Tokmakov (Santa Monica, Calif.), Allan Jabri (Oakland, Calif.) and Adrien D. Gaidon (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for tracking occluded objects includes encoding locations of a plurality of objects in an environment, determining a target object, receiving a first end point corresponding to a position of the target object before occlusion...