ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,683, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Flow-guided online stereo rectification" was invented by Felix Heide (New York City, N.Y.), Anush Kumar (Austin, Texas), Shile Li (Munich), Omid Hosseini Jafari (Munich) and Fahim Mannan (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomy computing system and a method of an autonomous vehicle for rectifying stereo images includes a memory storing computer executable instructions and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor, upon execution of the computer executable instructions, configured to: receive an image pair captured using respective cameras...