ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,836, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Camera-radar fusion using correspondences" was invented by Francesco Michielin (Stuttgart, Germany) and Oliver Vogel (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing sensor fusion of data obtained from a camera (51) and a supplemental sensor (52), the method comprising performing patch tracking (55) on image data (53) provided by the camera (51) to determine tracked patches (56), and performing a fusion (57) of the image data (53) obtained from the camera (51) with supplemental data (54) provided by the supplemental sensor (52) based on the ...