ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,934, issued on April 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Equidistant-temporal aggregation for moving object segmentation" was invented by Ming-Yuan Yu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Varun Ravi Kumar (San Diego) and Senthil Kumar Yogamani (Headford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for navigation store, in a time-based buffer, a first set of frames acquired by a sensor; stores, in a distance-based buffer, a second set of frames acquired by the sensor; performs moving object segmentation on the first set of frames and the second set of frames to identify at least one moving object in a scene of the frames; predicts a tra...