ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,883, issued on March 17, was assigned to Black Sesame Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for embedding uncertainty estimation into deep-neural-network-based autonomous driving perception frameworks" was invented by Gongjie Zhang (Singapore), Jiahao Lin (Singapore), Shuang Wu (Singapore), Yilin Song (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mukun Guo (Singapore) and Zuoguan Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this disclosure can provide a system and method for training a perception model to perform an autonomous driving task. During operation, the system can obtain labeled training data comprisi...