ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,688, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Edge Case Research Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for evaluating perception system quality" was invented by Philip J. Koopman Jr. (Pittsburgh), Michael David Wagner (Pittsburgh) and Elizabeth Ann Osyk (Twinsburg, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for measuring the performance of a perception system is provided that includes obtaining a pair of sensor data input streams to be evaluated by the perception system. Data augmentation is then added into at least one of the pair of sensor data input streams and the pair of sensor data input streams is then processed with th...