ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,731, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Device and method for predicting collision area of high speed small object" was invented by Shu-Hao Ye (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Chi-Tien Sun (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a device and a method for predicting a collision area of a high speed small object. The method includes: obtaining, by a processor, a sparse event stream data through an event camera; obtaining, by the processor, an event stream data corresponding to a cumulative time interval by using the sparse event stream data; predicting,...