ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,093, issued on July 29, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Shared training of neural networks to reduce data and for the object detection of image data" was invented by Matthias Kirschner (Hildesheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for configuring an object detection system includes providing annotated training data comprising image data with defined assignments to at least one object, and training a neural network with a first neural sub-network, which is provided to compress the image data. The first neural sub-network is connected to at least one further neural sub-network. The at least one f...