ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,836, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Kodiak Robotics Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for downsampling images" was invented by Andreas Wendel (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided of downsampling an image to a plurality of image resolutions. The method comprises capturing, using a camera, an image depicting an environment within view of the camera, identifying a first section of the image depicting an area of the environment spaced within a first distance range from the camera, identifying a second section of the image depicting an area of the environment spaced wi...