ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,501, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).
"Optimizations for real-time sensor fusion in vehicle understanding models" was invented by Ajaya Hanasoge Shankaranarayana Rao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Navaneeth Bodla (Redwood City, Calif.), Gia Tri Nguyen (Kirkland, Wash.) and Xi Yi (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous vehicles utilize perception and understanding of vehicles to predict behaviors of the vehicles, and to plan a trajectory. Understanding of attributes of vehicles may be improved through sensor fusion. Sensor fusion can be computationally expensive and may be diffi...