ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,903, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Kodiak Robotics Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for detecting and tracking objects in an environment of an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Suchir Gupta (Ada, Mich.), Collin C. Otis (Driggs, Idaho), Cole M. Miles (Mountain View, Calif.), Philip C. Du Toit (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Andreas Wendel (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods and systems for detecting and tracking objects in an environment of an autonomous vehicle. The method may include: receiving sensor data from at least one sensor of the autonomous vehicle, the se...