ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,161, issued on April 7, was assigned to Carbon Autonomous Robotic Systems Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for object tracking and location prediction" was invented by Raven Pillmann (Seattle), Simon Cochrane (Seattle), Brian Phillip Stark (Bothell, Wash.) and Alexander Igorevich Sergeev (Newcastle, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods, devices, modules, and systems which may be employed to accurately track, and subsequently target, objects of interest relative to a moving body, such as a vehicle. An object tracking method may be implemented by a detection system with a sensor coupled to the moving bo...