ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,209, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Volkswagen Group of America Investments LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Method, processing unit and recording system for generating encoded training data for a machine learning process" was invented by Roland Meertens (Munich) and Sergei Nikiforov (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is concerned with a method for generating encoded training data, wherein a processing unit performs the following steps for generating the encoded training data (11) and for storing them into a data storage during a test drive of a test vehicle that carries a camera that is generating raw image data. It is t...