ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,403, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Boundary estimation" was invented by Behnaz Rezaei (San Diego) and Christopher Brunner (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects are directed to an apparatus for lane estimation. The apparatus generally includes: at least one memory; and at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory and configured to receive a first input associated with a three-dimensional (3D) space, extract, from the first input, a first set of points associated with a ground plane of the 3D space, map each of the first set of points to a region of a plurality of regio...