ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,118, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Knowledge distillation for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Minfa Wang (Los Altos, Calif.), Kai Ding (Santa Clara, Calif.), Haoyu Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Wei Chai (Cupertino, Calif.) and Maher Mneimneh (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing knowledge distillation for autonomous vehicles. One of the methods includes obtaining sensor data characterizing an environment, wherein the sensor data has been captured by one or more sensors on-...