ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,313, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to WAYMO LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Displaying sensor data and supplemental data as a mask for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Nirmal Patel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Maria Moon (Mountain View, Calif.) and Peter Crandall (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing sensor data on a display of a vehicle. For instance, data points generated by a lidar sensor may be received. The data points may be representative of one or more objects in an external environment of the vehicle. A scene including a representation of the vehicle from a perspective of ...