ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,592, issued on July 21, was assigned to AUTOBRAINS TECHNOLOGIES LTD (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Zero shot localization for autonomous driving" was invented by Maya Rapaport (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel) and Max Monastirsky (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a location of a vehicle includes obtaining, by a processor, a plurality of aerial image segment signatures of segments of a region including the vehicle, and a plurality of sensed image signatures associated with the region including the vehicle. The method matches a selected aerial image segment signature segment signatures to a selected sensed im...