US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Nov. 25 for "Sharing sensor data between multiple controllers to support vehicle operations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,280, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Sharing sensor data between multiple controllers to support vehicle operations" was invented by Mark Costin (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Zoran Nikolic (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure presents an assisted driving vehicle system, including autonomous, semi-autonomous, and technology assisted vehicles, that can share sensor data among two or more controllers. A sensor can have one communication channel to a controller, thereby saving cabling and circuitry costs. The data from the sensor can be sent from one controller to another...