ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,362, issued on June 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Occupancy clustering according to radar data" was invented by Volodimir Slobodyanyuk (San Diego), Avdhut Joshi (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Sundar Subramanian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a device may receive, from a radar scanner or a LIDAR scanner of a vehicle, point data that identifies a first point and a second point. The device may receive grid information that identifies cells of a grid that is associated with mapping a physical environment of the vehicle. The device may designate, based on determining that a distance between the first ...