US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Composite street shadows for vehicles" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,354, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Composite street shadows for vehicles" was invented by Roland Mesde (Cupertino, Calif.), Alex Bessonov (San Jose, Calif.), Indraneel Mitra (Edgewater, N.J.), Stefano Marzani (Mountain View, Calif.) and Brett Francis (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle information system maintains a street shadow representing attributes of an environment in which a vehicle is located or travels through. The attributes may include objects or events in the surrounding environment. In some embodiments, cloud-based computing devices maintain a primary s...