ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,262, issued on April 7, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Detecting and identifying objects represented in sensor data generated by multiple sensor systems" was invented by Georg Kuschk (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany), Marc Unzueta Canals (Munich), Sven Moller (Lubbecke, Germany), Michael Meyer (Munich) and Karl-Heinz Krachenfels (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a first sensor system of a first modality and a second sensor system of a second modality. The system further includes a computing system that is configured to detect and identify objects represented in...