ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,448, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to WESTLAKE UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Detection method and apparatus, object monitoring system, computing device, and storage medium" was invented by Thomas Cherico Wanger (Hangzhou, China), Dong Sheng (Hangzhou, China), Lishun Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Xin Yuan (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a detection method and apparatus, an object monitoring system, a computing device, and a storage medium. The detection method includes acquiring an image containing a 2D code for an object, and inputting the image into a pre-trained multi-target detecti...