ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,184, issued on May 27, was assigned to Pony AI Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Efficient retrieval of sensor data while ensuring atomicity" was invented by Pingfan Meng (San Bruno, Calif.) and Stephen Lee (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device performs initial processing of sensor data. The computing device performs obtaining sensor data, writing the sensor data to first addresses of a dynamically allocated buffer associated with the computing device, encoding the sensor data, writing the encoded sensor data to second addresses of the dynamically allocated buffer, in response to completing the writin...