ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,517, issued on May 12, was assigned to DoorDash Inc. (San Francisco).

"High-fidelity variation of detected obstacles in autonomous vehicle logs" was invented by Allison Liemhetcharat (San Ramon, Calif.) and Chuang Wang (Sebastopol, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method includes inputting log data to perception, including sensor data of objects around AV and information about events occurring with respect to AV and obstacle, information including obstacle parameters, each having actual value detected by sensors; detecting, by perception from sensor data, coordinate region within which obstacle appears; outputting, by perception,...