ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,836, issued on May 26, was assigned to BLACK SESAME TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for enhanced annotation of faraway objects based on roadside sensors" was invented by Jizhang Shan (Los Gatos, Calif.), Qun Gu (San Jose, Calif.), Mingrui Qi (San Jose, Calif.), Yecheng Lyu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Lei Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments can provide a data-collection system for collecting training data for autonomous driving applications. The system can include an on-vehicle light-detection-and-ranging (lidar) unit mounted on a data-collection vehicle, a roadside lidar unit, a...