ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,663, issued on March 17.

"Multi-target tracking method based on feature decoupling with joint detection and feature re-identification" was invented by Laiwei Jiang (Tianjin, China) and Ce Wang (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-target tracking method with joint detection and re-identification based on feature decoupling in the field of multi-target tracking for solving low tracking accuracy problem caused by conflicts in optimization directions in the joint training process of detection and re-identification tasks and improving tracking performance, includes the steps of: preprocessing multi-target tracking datas...