ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,348, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).

"System and method for online real-time multi-object tracking" was invented by Lingting Ge (San Diego), Pengfei Chen (San Diego) and Panqu Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for online real-time multi-object tracking is disclosed. A particular embodiment can be configured to: receive image frame data from at least one camera associated with an autonomous vehicle; generate similarity data corresponding to a similarity between object data in a previous image frame compared with object detection results from a current image frame; use the ...