ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,964, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Path planning" was invented by Li Cao (Beijing), Ze Ming Zhao (Beijing), Zhan Wei Wang (Xi'an, China) and Xiao Tian Xu (Chang De, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a computer-implemented method, a system, and a computer program product for path planning According to the computer-implemented method, a target discriminator is selected from a set of discriminators with different kernel sizes based on a target image obtained from an image capturing device. In this case, a confidence of the target image is determi...