ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,981, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Ambarella International LP (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Intelligent notifications for truck bed camera enabled by smart metadata using image to text models" was invented by Shimon Pertsel (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising an interface and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive pixel data of an environment near a vehicle. The processor may be configured to process the pixel data arranged as video frames, perform computer vision operations on the video frames to detect objects, store an inventory of items in response to generating a text des...