ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,656, issued on July 14, was assigned to Raven Industries Inc. (Sioux Falls, S.D.).
"Multi-modal contextualization for object detection" was invented by Venkata Rama Karthik Paga (Tempe, Ariz.), Matthew K. Rust (Chandler, Ariz.), Aziz Alibasic (Waukee, Iowa) and Huiyan Wu (Downingtown, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for multi-modal contextualization of object detection for use with an agricultural vehicle are described herein. The techniques can provide additional context information to radar detection to assess the likelihood of an object detected by radar of being an object of interest. Examples of detection that migh...