ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,463, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Siemens Corp. (Washington).

"System and method for controlling autonomous machinery by processing rich context sensor inputs" was invented by Justinian Rosca (Princeton, N.J.), Tao Cui (Princeton Junction, N.J.) and Naveen Kumar Singa (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for controlling an autonomous machine includes processing sensor data streamed via a plurality of calibrated sensors by a plurality of perception modules to extract perception information from the sensor data in real time. The extracted real time perception information from the plurality ...