US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on May 20 for "Sensor fusion using ultrasonic sensors for autonomous systems and applications" (American, Canadian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,298, issued on May 20, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Sensor fusion using ultrasonic sensors for autonomous systems and applications" was invented by David Weikersdorfer (Mountain View, Calif.), Qian Lin (Berkeley, Calif.), Aman Jhunjhunwala (Toronto), Emilie Lucie Eloise Wirbel (Nogent-sur-Marne, France), Sangmin Oh (San Jose, Calif.), Minwoo Park (Saratoga, Calif.), Gyeong Woo Cheon (San Jose, Calif.), Arthur Henry Rajala (Greenville, Ohio) and Bor-Jeng Chen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, techniques for sensor-fusion based object detection and/or free-space detection usin...