ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,384, issued on May 13, was assigned to BEIJING TUSEN ZHITU TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Sensor layout of vehicles" was invented by Pingyuan Ji (Beijing) and Jianan Hao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a vehicle. The vehicle includes a first set of cameras, including a first subset of cameras facing to the front of the vehicle; a second set of cameras, with focal lengths less than those of the first set of cameras, the second set of cameras including a second and a third subset of cameras, the second subset of cameras facing to the front of the vehicle, and third subset of cameras facing to ...