ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,478, issued on June 9, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method to estimate processing rate requirement for safe AV driving to prioritize resource usage" was invented by Siva Kumar Sastay Hari (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yu-Shun Hsiao (Cambridge, Mass.), Timothy Tsai (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Vasu Singh (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation model utilizes simulations of an autonomous vehicle and objects detected near the automated vehicle to develop estimates of tolerable frame processing latency to develop real world frame processing latency estimates for similar driving conditions. An estimation model can ...