ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,602, issued on June 30, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Tracking objects with obscured object determination based on proximity of bounding shapes and relative motion of objects, and bounding shape estimation" was invented by Peter Siyuan Zhang (Spring, Texas) and Yun David Tang (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of electronic devices are described herein. In some examples, an electronic device includes a processor to provide a first set of images to an object tracker to output a bounding shape that represents an object in the first set of images. In some examples, the processor...