ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,031, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-view deep neural network for LiDAR perception" was invented by Nikolai Smolyanskiy (Seattle), Ryan Oldja (Redmond, Wash.), Ke Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alexander Popov (Kirkland, Wash.), Joachim Pehserl (Lynnwood, Wash.), Ibrahim Eden (Redmond, Wash.), Tilman Wekel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David Wehr (Redmond, Wash.), Ruchi Bhargava (Redmond, Wash.) and David Nister (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deep neural network(s) (DNN) may be used to detect objects from sensor data of a three dimensional (3D) environment. For example, a multi-view ...