ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,230, issued on March 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Vehicle environment sensor reliability determination" was invented by Ali Reza Abbaspour (Escondido, Calif.), Volodimir Slobodyanyuk (San Diego) and Mohammed Ataur Rahman Shuman (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An environment perception method, at an ego vehicle, includes: receiving, from a device external to the ego vehicle, one or more first reliability factors associated with the device and with a first value of a parameter of an environment; determining, based on the one or more first reliability factors, a first reliability of the first value; determini...