US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on July 21 for "Perception assistance" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,416, issued on July 21, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Perception assistance" was invented by Arthur L Gillespie III (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Katherine Mary Stumpf (San Francisco) and Anisha Mocherla (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosed technology provide systems and methods that allow adjustment of a perception of an object by an autonomous vehicle (AV). The system includes a remote assistance platform (RAP) communicatively coupled to the AV. The RAP has a user interface that enables a human Remote Advisor to view an environment around the AV through a sensor system of the AV and iss...