ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,700, issued on March 18, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Ibaraki, Japan).
"Method and systems for detection accuracy ranking and vehicle instructions" was invented by Xiaoliang Zhu (Northville, Mich.), Subrata Kumar Kundu (Canton, Mich.) and Paul Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising at least one hardware processor for updating a cloud-based road anomaly database is disclosed, wherein the system receives information from a vehicle regarding an object detected by one or more sensors of the vehicle, the information may include a location and/or a size of the detected object; compares the locatio...