ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,088, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Machine-learning based object detection and localization using ultrasonic sensor data" was invented by Nesti Tommaso (Mountain View, Calif.), Boddana Santhosh (Parvathipuram manyam, India) and Yaman Burhaneddin (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel ultrasonic-sensor based object detection framework, useful for autonomous vehicles, is disclosed. Disclosed embodiments input tabular ultrasonic data into a 3D point cloud. Multi-channel, bird's eye view data structures are obtained from the 3D point cloud. High quality, ultrasonic images ar...