ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,048, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for checking the performance of a prediction task by a neural network" was invented by Jan Stellet (Stuttgart, Germany) and Matthias Woehrle (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for checking the performance of a prediction task by a neural network. The method includes: supplying image data to a feature extraction network that is trained to determine a representation of the image data; supplying the determined representation to a prediction network; a first determination of an optical flow between the image data and ...