ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,365, issued on June 9, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for single-shot multi-object 3D shape reconstruction and categorical 6D pose and size estimation" was invented by Muhammad Zubair Irshad (Atlanta), Thomas Kollar (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Laskey (Oakland, Calif.) and Kevin Stone (San Luis Obispo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to single-shot multi-object three-dimensional (3D) shape reconstruction and categorical six-dimensional (6D) pose and size estimation. In on...