ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,532, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Enriching later-in-time feature maps using earlier-in-time feature maps" was invented by Balaji Sundareshan (Boston), Akankshya Kar (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Varun Kumar Reddy Bankiti (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may be used to determined object characteristics and/or generate bounding boxes for objects in a vehicle scene by enriching later-in-time feature maps using earlier-in-time feature maps. The system may generate a feature map from a received. Using an earlier-in-time feature map, the system may enrich semantic data of the generated f...