ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,896, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to REALSENSE LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Hierarchical perception monitor for vehicle safety" was invented by Cornelius Buerkle (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Fabian Oboril (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a device for filtering a point cloud. The device may include processor configured to receive a plurality of sensed points representing distance measurements to points in an area around an entity. The processor may also be configured to determine, for each sensed point of the plurality of sensed points, one or more probabilities that the sensed point is associated wit...