US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 16 for "Free space detection for parking and driving in puddle areas with permuted fusion network" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,565, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Free space detection for parking and driving in puddle areas with permuted fusion network" was invented by Varun Ravi Kumar (San Diego), Debasmit Das (San Diego) and Senthil Kumar Yogamani (Headford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving one or more images, wherein at least one of the one or more images depicts a water region and analyzing, by one or more processors, the one or more images using a first machine learning model to determine a depth of the water region. The method also includes analyzing, by the one or more processors, the o...