ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,162, issued on July 14, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method, computer program, storage medium, device for tracking an object" was invented by Alex Matskevych (Heidelberg, Germany), Thomas Gumpp (Dillingen, Germany), Alexandru Paul Condurache (Renningen, Germany), Claudius Glaeser (Ditzingen, Germany), Jasmin Ebert (Heidelberg, Germany) and Sebastian Muenzner (Ludwigsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for tracking an object using an environment sensor. The object is represented by an object status. The method includes detecting a sensor value of the environment sensor, predicting a fut...