ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,046, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Real-time object tracking using motion and visual characteristics for intelligent video analytics systems" was invented by Joonhwa Shin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Fangyu Li (San Jose, Calif.), Hugo Maxence Verjus (Zurich), Zheng Liu (Los Altos, Calif.) and Kaustubh Purandare (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first visual appearance descriptor associated with a first object in an environment is obtained based on a first set of images of a first time period. The first object is subsequently absent from the environment in a second set of images of ...