ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,515, issued on May 12, was assigned to dSPACE GmbH (Paderborn, Germany).

"Method and system for annotating sensor data" was invented by Daniel Roedler (Karlsruhe, Germany), Phillip Thomas (Karlsruhe, Germany), Simon Romanski (Karlsruhe, Germany), Georgi Urumov (Berlin), Tobias Biester (Karlsruhe, Germany), Ruben Jacob (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Boris Neubert (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for annotating driving scenario sensor data, including the steps of receiving raw sensor data, the raw sensor data comprising a plurality of successive LIDAR point clouds and/or a plurality of successiv...