ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,795, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for determining the pose of a target object in an image" was invented by Ning Gao (Nufringen, Germany), Gerhard Neumann (Karlsruhe, Germany), Anh Vien Ngo (Nehren, Germany) and Hanna Ziesche (Leonberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the pose of a target object in an input image. The method includes: providing a set of reference images that contain the target object and are annotated with the respective pose of the target object; inputting the reference images to a segmentor that is configured to distinguish parts a...