US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 13 for "Shared processing with deep neural networks" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,571, issued on May 13, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Shared processing with deep neural networks" was invented by Guy Hotson (Palo Alto, Calif.), Vidya Nariyambut Murali (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Gintaras Vincent Puskorius (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor for performing one or more autonomous driving or assisted driving tasks based on a neural network. The neural network includes a base portion for performing feature extraction simultaneously for a plurality of tasks on a single set of input data. The neural network includes a plurality of subtask portions for ...