ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,567, issued on July 15, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Multi-frame temporal aggregation and dense motion estimation for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Daniel Rudolf Maurer (Mountain View, Calif.), Kratarth Goel (Fremont, Calif.), Alper Ayvaci (San Jose, Calif.), Vasiliy Igorevich Karasev (San Francisco) and Hang Yan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining, by a processing device, input data derived from a set of sensors associated with an autonomous vehicle (AV). The input data includes camera data and radar data. The method further includes extracting, by the processin...