ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,414, issued on May 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Aligning sensor data for vehicle applications" was invented by Kiran Bangalore Ravi (Paris), Varun Ravi Kumar (San Diego) and Senthil Kumar Yogamani (Headford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for vehicle driving assistance systems that support image processing. A method is disclosed for aligning top-down features from two sensor arrangements and generating vehicle control instructions. The method includes receiving first sensor data from a first sensor arrangement and second sensor data from a second sensor ar...