US Patent Issued to Tesla on Nov. 11 for "Artificial intelligence modeling techniques for vision-based occupancy determination" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,160, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Artificial intelligence modeling techniques for vision-based occupancy determination" was invented by Pengfei Duan (Austin, Texas), Nishant Desai (Austin, Texas), Philip Lee (Austin, Texas) and Ashok Elluswamy (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems for using artificial intelligence modeling techniques to train and execute an artificial intelligence model to analyze camera feed received from an ego to generate an occupancy data indicating whether different voxels within the ego's surroundings are occupied by an object h...