ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,240, issued on March 31, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Multi-channel sensor simulation for autonomous control systems" was invented by Forrest Nelson Iandola (San Jose, Calif.), Donald Benton MacMillen (Hillsborough, Calif.), Anting Shen (Berkeley, Calif.), Harsimran Singh Sidhu (Fremont, Calif.), Daniel Paden Tomasello (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Rohan Nandkumar Phadte (San Jose, Calif.) and Paras Jagdish Jain (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous control system combines sensor data from multiple sensors to simulate sensor data from high-capacity sensors. The sensor data contains information ...