ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,574, issued on June 2, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"In-path object detection for autonomous systems and applications" was invented by Yakup Gunbatar (Edmonds, Wash.), Stefan Campbell (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Zihao Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, in-path object detection for autonomous and semi-autonomous systems and applications is described herein. For instance, systems and methods may use sensor data, such as inertial measurement sensor data, to generate or determine a lane that is associated with a vehicle. In some examples, the lane is generated or determined b...