ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,539, issued on July 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (Leuven, Belgium).

"Method for tracking position of object and system for tracking position of object" was invented by Wim Abbeloos (Brussels), Gabriel Othmezouri (Brussels), Frank Verbiest (Zichem, Belgium), Bruno Dawagne (Leuven, Belgium), Wim Lemkens (Leuven, Belgium), Marc Proesmans (Lede, Belgium) and Luc Van Gool (Merksem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for tracking a position of an object in a scene surrounding a mobile machine based upon information acquired from monocular images, includes: acquiring...