ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,387, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Image-coupled sensor sharing for cloud-based driving assistance" was invented by Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.) and Gene Wesley Marsh (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may be configured to detect, via at least one sensor of the apparatus, a first object and to capture at least one set of reference data associated with the detected first object. The apparatus may further be configured to transmit, to at least one second wireless device, information regarding the detected first object and the at least one set of reference data associated with th...