US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on July 21 for "Use of camera information for radar beamforming" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,629, issued on July 21, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Use of camera information for radar beamforming" was invented by Daniel Flores Tapia (Fairfield, Calif.) and Jace Artichoker (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Use of camera information for radio detection and ranging (RADAR) beamforming is disclosed. Camera information for a scene having a target object is received. Digital RADAR waveforms corresponding to a frame of reference including the at target object are received. Coordinates for the scene in the camera frame of reference are translated to the RADAR frame of reference. A radar cross se...