ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,873, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Training method" was invented by Shota Isobe (Kyoto, Japan) and Yutaka Yoshihama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A training method according to the present disclosure is a training method performed by a computer to train a neural network model including a first network branch for representation learning with use of supervised contrastive learning, and a second network branch for training of computer vision tasks including a classification task and a task other than the classification task. The training method includes: perfo...