ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,383, issued on July 28, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for static detection based amodalization placement" was invented by Andrew Haworth (Washington) and Xiufeng Song (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer program products for controlling a mobile platform. The methods comprise: obtaining loose-fit cuboids overlaid on 3D graphs so as to each encompass lidar data points associated with an object; defining an amodal cuboid based on the loose-fit cuboids; checking whether or not the object is static through a time period;...