ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,208, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to UCL BUSINESS LTD. (London).

"Computer-implemented method of enhancing object detection in a digital image of known underlying structure, and corresponding module, data processing apparatus and computer program" was invented by Watjana Lilaonitkul (London), Adam Dubis (London) and James Willoughby (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of enhancing object detection in a digital image of known underlying structure using pre-processed images with underlying structure and with any objects detected and bounding boxes inserted over the objects, the method comprising: extra...