ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,283, issued on March 4, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Device and method for determining a semantic segmentation and/or an instance segmentation of an image" was invented by Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi (Pittsburgh), Jan Hendrik Metzen (Boeblingen, Germany) and Robin Hutmacher (Renningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for determining an output signal characterizing a semantic segmentation and/or an instance segmentation of an image. The method includes: determining a first intermediate output signal from a machine learning system, wherein the first intermediate output signa...