ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,813, issued on July 21, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems, apparatus, and methods for generating enhanced images" was invented by Jia Feng (Mountain View, Calif.), Damien Kelly (Mountain View, Calif.), Ignacio Garcia Dorado (Mountain View, Calif.), Xiaoying He (Mountain View, Calif.), Benjamin Frevert (Mountain View, Calif.) and Nirav Dharia (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described examples relate to an apparatus comprising a first sensor configured to scan an area of interest during a first time period and a second sensor configured to capture a plurality of images of a field of view....