ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,714, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Sensor data point cloud generation for map creation and localization 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: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to generating RADAR (RAdio Detection And Ranging) ...