ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,607, issued on July 22, was assigned to NEC Corporation Of America (Herzlia, Israel).
"Autonomous vehicle control" was invented by Tsvi Lev (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of autonomous vehicle control, comprising: receiving an image of a lenticular human-imperceptible marker embedded in an element of an environment that an autonomous vehicle is moving in, the marker having a pattern usable for determining positional data of the moving vehicle, the image captured using human-invisible light, analyzing the received image of the human-imperceptible marker, and controlling the autonomous vehicle based on the an...