ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,582, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for occlusion reconstruction in surround views using temporal information" was invented by Yehonatan Mandel (Herzliya, Israel) and Michael Slutsky (Kefar-Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for occlusion reconstruction in surround views using temporal information is provided. The system includes an active camera device generating image data describing a first view of an operating environment and a computerized visual data controller. The controller includes programming to analyze the image data to generate a thre...