US Patent Issued to Nissan North America on Nov. 25 for "Data determining interface for vehicle decision-making" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,463, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Data determining interface for vehicle decision-making" was invented by Luis Lorenzo Bill Clark (San Francisco), Kyle Hollins Wray (Mountain View, Calif.), David Ilstrup (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Stefan Witwicki (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Decision-making for a vehicle uses a data determining interface between perception and decision-making. The interface receives, from at least two data sources, operational environment data representing objects external to the vehicle while the vehicle is traversing a vehicle transportation ne...