ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,984, issued on July 29, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Multi-modal 3-D pose estimation" was invented by Jingxiao Zheng (San Jose, Calif.), Xinwei Shi (Cupertino, Calif.), Alexander Gorban (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Junhua Mao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Andre Liang Cornman (San Francisco), Yang Song (San Jose, Calif.), Ting Liu (Los Angeles), Ruizhongtai Qi (Mountain View, Calif.), Yin Zhou (San Jose, Calif.), Congcong Li (Cupertino, Calif.) and Dragomir Anguelov (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for estimating a...