ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,662, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Unified boundary machine learning model for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Mohamed Chaabane (Seattle), Benjamin Kaplan (Denver), Yevgeni Litvin (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Stephen O'Hara (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Sean Vig (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unified boundary machine learning model is capable of processing perception data received from various types of perception sensors on an autonomous vehicle to generate perceived boundaries of various semantic boundary types. Such perceived boundaries may then be used, for example, to...