ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,236, issued on June 30, was assigned to Valeo Telematik und Akustik GmbH (Germany).
"Multidirectional microphones for occlusions" was invented by Thomas Heitzmann (Troy, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a computing device configured to control an autonomous or semi-autonomous driving task of a vehicle includes identifying, based on image data obtained from one or more sensors, an area of interest corresponding to the driving task, determining whether the area of interest includes an obstructed region for which line-of-sight of at least one of the one or more sensors is blocked by an object, determining, in r...