ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,585, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Object detection with multiple ranges and resolutions" was invented by Yu Su (Wuppertal, Germany) and Mirko Meuter (Erkrath, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for object detection in a surrounding of a vehicle using a deep neural network, comprising: inputting a first set of sensor-based data for a first Cartesian grid having a first spatial dimension and a first spatial resolution into a first branch of the deep neural network; inputting a second set of sensor-based data for a second Cartesian grid having a second sp...