ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,846, issued on May 13, was assigned to PlusAI Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for natural language based scenario discovery to train a machine learning model for a driving system" was invented by Yang Yang (Fremont, Calif.), Anurag Paul (Campbell, Calif.) and Yu Sun (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for classifying environmental image frames for vehicles, using a universal iterative classification model, is presented. The method combines text-based querying, active machine-learning models, and user input to form an end-to-end automatic flow for sourcing video frames captured by sensors on...