ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,821, issued on March 17, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Object detection for autonomous systems and applications" was invented by Yang Zheng (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Trung Pham (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Minwoo Park (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, one or more object detectors may regress bounding polygons for detected objects in systems (e.g., autonomous or semi-autonomous driving systems and applications) that provide object awareness, object identification, object avoidance, and/or object localization. The object detector may determine regression data representing a regres...