US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on July 7 for "Freespace detection using machine learning for autonomous systems and applications" (American, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,007, issued on July 7, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Freespace detection using machine learning for autonomous systems and applications" was invented by Alexander Popov (Kirkland, Wash.), David Nister (Bellevue, Wash.), Nikolai Smolyanskiy (Seattle), Patrik Gebhardt (Cupertino, Calif.), Ke Chen (Mountain View, Calif.), Ryan Oldja (Issaquah, Wash.), Hee Seok Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Shane Murray (San Jose, Calif.), Ruchi Bhargava (Redmond, Wash.), Tilman Wekel (San Jose, Calif.) and Sangmin Oh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed that relate to freespace detect...