ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,598, issued on May 20, was assigned to Insurance Services Office Inc. (Jersey City, N.J.).

"System and method for generating simulated scenes from open map data for machine learning" was invented by Venkata Subbarao Veeravarasapu (Munich) and Maneesh Kumar Singh (Lawrenceville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating simulated scenes from open map data for machine learning are presented. The system includes an automatic scene generative pipeline that uses freely-available map information and random texture maps to create large-scale 3D urban scene layouts for supervised learning methods. The system gene...