ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,084, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Target likelihood fusion" was invented by Borham Lee (Woodside, Calif.) and Wai Chung Chu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system configured to improve SSL processing and/or target goal detection by fusing SSL data with object information to generate a combined target likelihood estimate that takes into account what the device knows about the surrounding environment. For example, the device may generate object information by performing object detection, floorplan estimation, distance measurements, and/or the like. Using this object informat...