ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,780, issued on June 23.
"Utilizing a plurality of on-road vehicles for increasing descriptive accuracy of areas and objects" was invented by Gal Zuckerman (Holon, Israel) and Moshe Salhov (Herzeliya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of on-road vehicles moving along streets of a city, while utilizing onboard cameras for autonomous driving functions, are bound to capture, over time, random images of various city objects such as pedestrians, vehicles, building and other structures. Images of a certain city object may be captured by many of the vehicles at various times while passing by that object, thereby resulting in ...