ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,408, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).
"Method for visual detection and position estimation of road flares" was invented by Pranay Agrawal (San Jose, Calif.), Ashish Shrivastava (San Jose, Calif.), Robert Liang (San Francisco) and Changkai Zhou (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology provides solutions for applying a flare detection model to an image for detecting road flares in an environment by an autonomous vehicle (AV). A method comprises accessing a flare detection model that is trained to recognize a bounded outer region and a bounded inner region; ...