Where the density is
Filings around late-fusion architectures have plateaued. The action has moved to early-fusion and mid-fusion pipelines, where raw radar tensors are combined with camera features before object hypothesis. Tier-1s and hyperscalers are both filing heavily.
What to watch
Ground-truthing and simulation-to-real transfer are the sleeper categories. The teams that own the data-generation and validation IP will have leverage independent of the sensor stack.



