ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,308, issued on March 24, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Generating object representations using neural networks for autonomous systems and applications" was invented by Abhishek Bajpayee (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sai Krishnan Chandrasekar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xudong Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hae Jong Seo (Campbell, Calif.) and Siddharth Kothiyal (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed that relate to object detection and to generating detected object representations. Sensor data corresponding to a scene may be obtained that may represent one or more objects. A tensor may be ...