US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on April 8 for "Using neural networks to perform fault detection in autonomous driving applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,194, issued on April 8, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Using neural networks to perform fault detection in autonomous driving applications" was invented by Richard Bramley (Santa Clara, Calif.), Philip Payman Shirvani (San Mateo, Calif.) and Nirmal Saxena (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, motifs, watermarks, and/or signature inputs are applied to a deep neural network (DNN) to detect faults in underlying hardware and/or software executing the DNN. Information corresponding to the motifs, watermarks, and/or signatures may be compared to the outputs of the DNN generated u...