US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Aug. 4 for "Feature detection and localization" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,129, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Feature detection and localization" was invented by Jiaxing Geng (Beijing), Yu Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Derek Miller (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Lin Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, three-dimensional (3D) object or feature detection and localization for autonomous and semi-autonomous systems and applications is described herein. Systems and methods are disclosed that use different types of sensors, such as an image sensor and a LIDAR sensor, to determine information associated with objects, such as traffic objects (...