ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,169, issued on July 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Autonomous vehicle perception multimodal sensor data management" was invented by Julio Fernando Jarquin Arroyo (Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany), Ignacio J. Alvarez (Portland, Ore.), Cornelius Buerkle (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Fabian Oboril (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The automated driving perception systems described herein provide technical solutions for technical problems facing navigation sensors for autonomous vehicle navigation. These systems may be used to combine inputs from multiple navigation sensors to provide a multimodal perceptio...