ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,651, issued on July 29, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Retrofit light detection and ranging (LIDAR)-based vehicle system to operate with vision-based sensor data" was invented by Burkay Donderici (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for retrofitting a light detection and ranging (LIDAR)-based vehicle computing system to operate with vision-based sensor data are provided. For example, a method implemented by a vehicle may include receiving, from one or more sensors of a first sensing modality at the vehicle, first sensor data associated with a surrounding environment of the v...