ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,776, issued on March 17, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Scene illumination detection for autonomous systems and applications" was invented by Keerthi Raj Nagaraja (Santa Clara, Calif.), Arjun Gupta (Stanford, Calif.), Abhishek Bajpayee (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kivanc Temel (Cambridge, Mass.), Dylan Doblar (San Jose, Calif.), Sai Krishnan Chandrasekar (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yu Wang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to determining a first illumination level corresponding to an area based at least on a first illumination detection obtained using a first illuminat...