US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on April 21 for "Feature location identification for autonomous systems and applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,849, issued on April 21, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Feature location identification for autonomous systems and applications" was invented by Yixuan Lin (San Jose, Calif.) and Yu Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, determining locations of road markings or other features for autonomous and semi-autonomous systems and applications is described. Systems and methods are disclosed that use LiDAR data-and/or other sensor data types-to determine the locations of road markings, such as lane lines, within environments. For instance, sensor data, such as image data, may initia...