US Patent Issued to ANSYS on March 17 for "Virtual testing of autonomous driving systems with thermal cameras" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,337, issued on March 17, was assigned to ANSYS Inc. (Canonsburg, Pa.).

"Virtual testing of autonomous driving systems with thermal cameras" was invented by Ludovic Manillier (La Farlede, France), Sebastien Abram (La Farlede, France) and Sandra Gely (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, use of virtual thermal cameras in simulations systems can rapidly increase the deployment of vehicles with autonomous driving systems that include thermal cameras as a part of the sensor systems that detect people, other cars, etc. This use can be achieved by calibrating virtual thermal cameras using a virtual object or scenes...