ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,794, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Normalized cross-correlation based edge tracking" was invented by Chayan Sharma (Jabalpur, India), Ajit Deepak Gupte (Bangalore, India), Gerhard Reitmayr (Del Mar, Calif.), Pushkar Gorur Sheshagiri (Bengaluru, India), Tom Edward Botterill (San Diego), Bhargava Venkata Chintalapati (Hyderabad, India), Aashish Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Poorna Hima Vamsi Anumula (Vinukonda, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems are provided for edge detection is provided. The process can include obtaining a depth information and location information for a poin...