ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,342, issued on July 8, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Network for multisweep 3D detection" was invented by Kuan-Hui Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Charles Christopher Ochoa (San Francisco), Arjun Bhargava (San Francisco), Chao Fang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Kun-Hsin Chen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to a multi-task model that integrates recurrent models to improve handling of multi-sweep inputs. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring sensor data from multiple modalities. The meth...