ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,971, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).
"Field determination for obstacle detection" was invented by Vikram Appia (San Jose, Calif.), Umit Batur (Seattle) and Qian Song (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for determining a field in a path of travel of a vehicle for detection of objects in the path of travel. An apparatus includes a path identifier configured to identify a path of travel for a vehicle. At least one camera is disposed on the vehicle and is configured to capture image data of an area including the path of travel. A region of interes...