US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on March 11 for "Lane mask generation for autonomous machine" (California, Utah, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,163, issued on March 11, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Lane mask generation for autonomous machine" was invented by Josh Abbott (Draper, Utah), Miguel Sainz Serra (Palo Alto, Calif.), Zhaoting Ye (Santa Clara, Calif.) and David Nister (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, object fence corresponding to objects detected by an ego-vehicle may be used to determine overlap of the object fences with lanes on a driving surface. A lane mask may be generated corresponding to the lanes on the driving surface, and the object fences may be compared to the lanes of the lane mask to determine ...