ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,442, issued on March 17, was assigned to Elektrobit Automotive GmbH (Erlangen, Germany).

"Training of a convolutional neural network" was invented by Sorin Mihai Grigorescu (Brasov, Romania), Bogdan Trasnea (Brasov, Romania) and Andrei Vasilcoi (Brasov, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is related to a method, a computer program code, and an apparatus for training a convolutional neural network for an autonomous driving system. The disclosure is further related to a convolutional neural network, to an autonomous driving system comprising a neural network, and to an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle comprisin...