ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,860, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BOE Technology Group Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Computer-implemented object detection method using oriented bounding boxes, object detection apparatus, and computer-readable medium" was invented by Pan Zhong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented object detection method includes determining a first bounding box for an object to be detected in an image; determining whether the first bounding box of the object to be detected in the image is oriented either horizontally or vertically with respect to a horizontal axis of the image; upon determination that the first bounding box of...