ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,477, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.), Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan) and The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for multi-object tracking" was invented by Colton Stearns (Stanford, Calif.), Jie Li (Los Altos, Calif.), Rares A. Ambrus (San Francisco), Vitor Campagnolo Guizilini (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sergey Zakharov (San Francisco), Adrien D. Gaidon (San Jose, Calif.), Davis Rempe (Stanford, Calif.), Tolga Birdal (London) and Leonidas J. Guibas (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for multi...