ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,892, issued on May 13, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Intersection region detection and classification for autonomous machine applications" was invented by Trung Pham (Santa Clara, Calif.), Berta Rodriguez Hervas (San Francisco), Minwoo Park (Saratoga, Calif.), David Nister (Bellevue, Wash.) and Neda Cvijetic (East Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, live perception from sensors of a vehicle may be leveraged to detect and classify intersection contention areas in an environment of a vehicle in real-time or near real-time. For example, a deep neural network (DNN) may be trained t...