US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on Feb. 18 for "Interaction auto-labeling using spatial overlap of track footprints for mining interactions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,186, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Interaction auto-labeling using spatial overlap of track footprints for mining interactions" was invented by Adeel Mufti (San Francisco), Prathyush Katukojwala (Pasadena, Calif.) and Na Yu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods of the present disclosure provide a solution to quickly sort through and identify relevant data sets from large amounts of data collected by numerous vehicles. This process is a form of data mining where a processor executes instructions out of a memory to evaluate sensor data collected by vehicles ...