US Patent Issued to Kodiak Robotics on March 3 for "Systems and methods to manage tracking of objects through occluded regions" (Colorado, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,331, issued on March 3, was assigned to Kodiak Robotics Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods to manage tracking of objects through occluded regions" was invented by Collin Otis (Driggs, Idaho) and Philip C. Du Toit (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments include systems and methods to maintain tracking of an object that passes into an occluded area, including defining a map of a driving area; defining one or more occlusion areas within the map; detecting an object using sensor data from one or more sensors; creating an object track for the object detected using sensor data; determining ...