ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,610, issued on June 30, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Joint object tracking" was invented by Mehmet K. Kocamaz (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel Per Olof Svensson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Hang Dou (Fremont, Calif.), Sangmin Oh (San Jose, Calif.), Minwoo Park (Saratoga, Calif.) and Kexuan Zou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, techniques for multi-dimensional tracking of objects using two-dimensional (2D) sensor data are described. Systems and methods may use first image data to determine a first 2D detected location and a first three-dimensional (3D) detected location of an object. The ...