ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,980, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Modeling configurable atmospheric conditions using point clouds for sensor simulation" was invented by Benjamin Naujoks (Neubiberg, Germany), Or Litany (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Steve Butrimas (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, systems and methods are disclosed relating to transforming sensor measurements according to configurable atmospheric conditions. One or more circuits can identify a point cloud comprising a plurality of points and a parameter of a weather condition to simulate and modify an intensity of at least one of ...