ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,336, issued on June 2, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Heterogeneous on-vehicle camera system for object detection" was invented by Elaine Wenying Jin (Newark, Calif.) and Vidya Rajagopalan (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to enhance vehicle object detection capability are provided. The vehicle may include a first sensor coupled with a body of the vehicle, the first sensor having a first field of view and the first sensor comprising a polarizer. The vehicle may include a second sensor coupled with the body of the vehicle, the second sensor having a second field of view. Th...