ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,261, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"Visualization system and method for interpretation and diagnosis of deep neural networks" was invented by Panpan Xu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Liu Ren (Saratoga, Calif.) and Zhenge Zhao (Tuscon, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving one or more images from one or more sensors, creating one or more image patches utilizing the one or more images, creating one or more latent representations from the one or more image patches via a neural network, outputting, to a concept extractor network, the one or more latent representa...