ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,010, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Controlling sensor fusion for automated vehicle technology" was invented by Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Akila C. Ganlath (Fremont, Calif.) and Qi Chen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling sensor fusion can include a processor and a memory. The memory can store a sensor data adjustment module, a sensor fusion module, and a communications module. The sensor data adjustment module can include instructions that, when executed by the process...