ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,897, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cariad SE (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Position determination by means of neural networks" was invented by Michael Holicki (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for training an artificial neural generator network for the generating of synthetic landmark images is provided, in which landmark images are extracted from at least one training map as training data, which form a first training data set, and the generator network as a generator of a generative adversarial network learns with the aid of the first training data set and with the aid of real, non-annotated image data, recorded by a sen...