ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,264, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Object detection using image and audio data" was invented by Balaji Shankar Balachandran (San Diego), Varun Ravi Kumar (San Diego) and Senthil Kumar Yogamani (Headford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a device may obtain, via a camera associated with the device, an image that includes one or more objects located within an area of the device. The device may generate a first three-dimensional output based at least in part on the image. The device may obtain, via an audio component associated with the device, an audio input associated with the on...