ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,873, issued on March 11, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Germany).

"Computer-implemented method and system for generating a synthetic training data set for training a machine learning computer vision model" was invented by Pooja Rangarajan (Wolfsburg, Germany), Nikhil Gupta (Braunschweig, Germany), Andre Breitenfeld (Berlin), Andreas Muller (Calberlah, Germany), Sebastian Schulz (Uelzen, Germany), Sheng Ling (Braunschweig, Germany), Thomas Kammerlocher (Calberlah, Germany) and Fabian Baier (Gehrden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for generating a synthetic training data set for training a machine...