ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,393, issued on April 29, was assigned to Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory (North Logan, Utah).

"Object tracking" was invented by Morgan Davidson (River Heights, Utah) and Jacob Christensen (North Logan, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various example embodiments, a system and method for tracking objects in a three-dimensional space is disclosed. One method includes receiving detections representing targets, increasing a classification of a track in response to a detection matching the track, decreasing a classification of a track in response to no detections matching the track, and processing detections according...