ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,495, issued on May 6, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Sensor data based map creation for autonomous systems and applications" was invented by Amir Akbarzadeh (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew Carley (Kenmore, Wash.), Birgit Henke (Seattle), Si Lu (San Jose, Calif.), Ivana Stojanovic (Oakland, Calif.), Jugnu Agrawal (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Kroepfl (Kirkland, Wash.), Yu Sheng (San Diego), David Nister (Bellevue, Wash.) and Enliang Zheng (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to generation of map data. In these or other embodiments, the generation of the ...