ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,235, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Ground truth data generation for deep neural network perception in autonomous driving applications" was invented by Tilman Wekel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Joachim Pehserl (Lynnwood, Wash.), Jacob Meyer (Honolulu), Jake Guza (Lexington, Mass.), Anton Mitrokhin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Richard Whitcomb (Lynnfield, Mass.), Marco Scoffier (Lincroft, N.J.), David Nister (Bellevue, Wash.) and Grant Monroe (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An annotation pipeline may be used to produce 2D and/or 3D ground truth data for deep neural networks, such as autonomous o...