US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Oct. 7 for "Deep neural network for segmentation of road scenes and animate object instances for autonomous driving applications" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,412, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Deep neural network for segmentation of road scenes and animate object instances for autonomous driving applications" was invented by Ke Chen (Sunnvale, Calif.), Nikolai Smolyanskiy (Seattle), Alexey Kamenev (Bellevue, Wash.), Ryan Oldja (Redmond, Wash.), Tilman Wekel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David Nister (Bellevue, Wash.), Joachim Pehserl (Lynnwood, Wash.), Ibrahim Eden (Redmond, Wash.), Sangmin Oh (San Jose, Calif.) and Ruchi Bhargava (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deep neural network(s) (DNN) may be used to perform panoptic segmentation by per...