ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,665, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MAY-I INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Object detection method and device using multiple area detection" was invented by In Sik Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Jun Hyuk Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Jin Woo Park (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection method is provided. The method includes the steps of: acquiring a plurality of frame images; detecting a first bounding box of a first object and a second bounding box of a second object from a first frame image; assigning a first identification value to the first bounding box and a second identification value to the second ...