ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,116, issued on July 7, was assigned to WHS ENERGY SOLUTIONS LLC (Argyle, Texas).

"Proximity detection for automotive vehicles and other systems based on probabilistic computing techniques" was invented by Jongmoo Choi (Gardena, Calif.), Kilsoo Kim (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Siddharth Agarwal (Torrance, Calif.), Emilio Aron Moyers Barrera (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and David R. Arft (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes identifying, using at least one processor, a first point associated with an uncertain location of an object in a space and a polynomial curve associated with an uncertain location of a feature ...