ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,730, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Applied Intuition Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Video normalization for an autonomous vehicle" was invented by John Hayes (Mountain View, Calif.), Volkmar Uhlig (Cupertino, Calif.), Akash J. Sagar (Redwood City, Calif.), Nima Soltani (Los Gatos, Calif.), Feng Tian (Foster City, Calif.) and Christopher R. Lumb (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video normalization for an autonomous vehicle, including: receiving, from one or more cameras of an autonomous vehicle, video data; applying a color normalization to the video data by: converting the video data to a lighting-invariant color sp...