ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,246, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Pony AI Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Sensor triggering to synchronize sensor data" was invented by Stephen Lee (Fremont, Calif.) and Yuning Yang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device triggers a sensor operation. The computing device includes one or more processors and instructions or logic that, when executed by the one or more processors, implements computing functions. The computing device performs receiving timestamps from a sensor, simulating an operation of the sensor, the simulation including predicting orientations of the sensor at different times base...