US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha, Columbia University on July 28 for "Systems and methods for detecting occluded objects" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,556, issued on July 28, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.), Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and Columbia University (New York).

"Systems and methods for detecting occluded objects" was invented by Simon A.I. Stent (Oxford, Great Britain), Ruoshi Liu (New York), Sachit Menon (New York), Chengzhi Mao (New York), Dennis Park (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Carl M. Vondrick (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting occluded objects are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of determining a shape and pose of an object occluded by an occlusion object includes receiving, by a gen...