ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,984, issued on March 31, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Multimodal vehicle sensor fusion and streaming" was invented by Vinayaka Dattatraya (Mill Creek, Wash.), Christopher Gorham (Kansas City, Mo.), Curtis Boushley (Issaquah, Wash.), Yu Chen (Fremont, Calif.) and Steven Sturkop (Provence-Alpes-Cote, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for encrypting and streaming AV sensor data and AV derived data. In particular, systems and methods are provided for receiving AV sensor data at a streaming platform and providing the received data to multiple endpoints. In some examples, the multiple en...