ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,027, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Using scene dependent object queries to generate bounding boxes" was invented by Apoorv Singh (Pittsburgh) and Varun Kumar Reddy Bankiti (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A perception system may be used to generate bounding boxes for objects in a vehicle scene. The perception system may receive images and feature maps corresponding to the received images. The perception system may generate scene dependent object queries. The perception system may use the generate scene dependent object queries to generate one or more bounding boxes for objects in the vehicle sce...