ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,771, issued on May 27, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Perception processing with multi-level adaptive data processing flow rate control" was invented by Shige Wang (Northville, Mich.), Wei Tong (Troy, Mich.) and Shuqing Zeng (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A perception processing system includes a memory and a main controller. The main controller includes modules and implements a data processing pipeline including algorithm stages, which are executed in parallel relative to sets of data and are executed sequentially relative to each of the sets of data. The algorithm stages sha...