ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,786, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Visual analytics system to assess, understand, and improve deep neural networks" was invented by Liang Gou (San Jose, Calif.), Lincan Zou (San Jose, Calif.), Wenbin He (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Liu Ren (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual analytics workflow and system are disclosed for assessing, understanding, and improving deep neural networks. The visual analytics workflow advantageously enables interpretation and improvement of the performance of a neural network model, for example an image-based objection detection and classificatio...