ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,329, issued on March 4, was assigned to Verizon Connect Development Ltd. (Dublin).

"Systems and methods for detecting objects in an image of an environment" was invented by Tommaso Mugnai (Florence, Italy), Douglas Coimbra De Andrade (Florence, Italy), Giovanni Morini (Siena, Italy) and Andrea Basile (Florence, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may receive an image that depicts an environment associated with a vehicle. The device may partition the image into a plurality of subsections. The device may analyze the plurality of subsections to determine respective subsection information, wherein subse...