ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,055, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).

"Perception anomaly detection for autonomous driving" was invented by Long Sha (San Diego), Junliang Zhang (San Diego), Rundong Ge (San Diego), Xiangchen Zhao (San Diego), Fangjun Zhang (San Diego), Yizhe Zhao (San Diego) and Panqu Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unified framework for detecting perception anomalies in autonomous driving systems is described. The perception anomaly detection framework takes an input image from a camera in or on a vehicle and identifies anomalies as belonging to one of three categories. Lens anomalies are associated with ...