ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,238, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Estimating and transmitting objects captured by a camera" was invented by Urs Niesen (Berkeley Heights, N.J.), Mandar Narsinh Kulkarni (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Jubin Jose (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device may obtain, from a camera, an image with at least one captured object, which may include a plurality of dimensions. The image may include a 2D projection of the at least one captured object. The wireless device may calculate at least one dimension of the plurality of dimensions of the at least one captured object based on the 2D ...