ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,372, issued on June 9, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and system for detecting an object and associated pose from overhead imagery data" was invented by Hai Yu (San Diego) and Amey Aroskar (Aurora, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for detecting objects and associated pose from imagery data. The approach, for instance, involves processing an image using a feature representation network to generate a set of points representing the object detected in the image. Each point, for instance, has an attribute indicating a geometric part of the object. The approach also ...