ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,672, issued on June 23, was assigned to Evrio Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Laser-less, no emission range finding artificial intelligence device and methods" was invented by Kendyl A. Roman (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and John Livacich (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial intelligence (AI) device and methods for recognizing objects, such string support rods, birds, mammals, such as deer or elk, or vehicles, such as trucks or tanks, each object type having a known size, and to recognize the distance to each object. For training, embodiments comprise an AI device having an image sensor and optional laser rangefinder. ...