ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,881, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Curvelet-based low level fusion of camera and radar sensor information" was invented by Kotung Lin (San Carlos, Calif.) and Daniel Flores Tapia (Fairfield, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Curvelet-based low level fusion of camera and RADAR sensor information is disclosed and includes processing RADAR data corresponding to a scene to generate a RADAR point cloud and processing camera image data corresponding to the scene using a curvelet transform to identify a target of interest in the scene and generate for the target of interest a target type, (x...