ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,242, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Perception confidence" was invented by Harshad Sane (Santa Clara, Calif.), Maroof Mohammed Farooq (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sangmin Oh (San Jose, Calif.) and Mehmet Kocamaz (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure may include a method and system for performing one or more operations based on a visibility confidence model. In some embodiments, the method may include generating a visibility confidence model which may indicate a level of confidence in sensor data that may correspond to individual sub-sections of an aggre...