ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,917, issued on April 14, was assigned to WISTRON CORP (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Object detection device and method" was invented by Zhe-Yu Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Chih-Yi Chien (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Chen Wei Yang (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Tsun-Hsien Kuo (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Kuei Ping Ting (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Ke Kang Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection device is provided in the invention. The object detection device includes an image-extraction device and a processor. The image-extraction device extracts a plurality of images and a plurality of depth images i...