ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,440, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).
"Cooperative LIDAR object detection via feature sharing in deep networks" was invented by Ehsan Emad Marvasti (Orlando, Fla.), Arash Raftari (Orlando, Fla.) and Yaser Pourmohammadi Fallah (Oviedo, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Situational awareness as a necessity in connected and autonomous vehicles domain is a subject of significant research in recent years. The driver's safety is directly dependent on robustness, reliability and scalability of such systems. Cooperative mechanisms have provided a solution to improve ...