ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,513, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Kodiak Robotics Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for controlling a vehicle using high precision and high recall detection" was invented by Derek J. Phillips (Mountain View, Calif.), Collin C. Otis (Driggs, Idaho), Andreas Wendel (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jackson P. Rusch (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems and methods for detecting and tracking objects or obstacles in an environment of an autonomous vehicle. The method may include receiving data from a set of sensors, wherein the data represents objects or obstacles in an ...