ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,385, issued on March 24, was assigned to CreateAI Inc. (San Diego).

"System and method for occlusion detection in autonomous vehicle operation" was invented by Zhe Chen (San Diego), Yizhe Zhao (San Diego), Lingting Ge (San Diego) and Panqu Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and systems for operating an autonomous vehicle. In some embodiments, the system may obtain, by a camera associated with an autonomous vehicle, an image of an environment of the autonomous vehicle, the environment including a road on which the autonomous vehicle is operating and an occlusion on the road. The sys...