ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,837, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Tomahawk Robotics Inc. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Point of interest tracking and estimation" was invented by Daniel R. Hedman (Palm Bay, Fla.), Matthew D. Summer (Melbourne, Fla.), William S. Bowman (Melbourne, Fla.), Michael E. Bowman (Satellite Beach, Fla.), Brad Truesdell (Indialantic, Fla.) and Andrew D. Falendysz (Grant, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for determining three-dimensional locations of objects within identified portions of images. An image processing system may receive an image and an identification of location within an image. The image m...