ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,365, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"System and method for digital object identification and tracking using feature extraction and segmentation" was invented by Prakash Ranganathan (Tamilnadu, India) and Saurabh Tahiliani (Uttar Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for identifying and tracking objects in digital content are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising obtaining a frame of digital content, the frame comprising pixel data, detecting an object using the pixel data, determining a set of attributes for the detected object, ...