ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,857, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Five AI Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Extracting features from sensor data" was invented by John Redford (Cambridge, Great Britain), Anuj Sharma (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Puneet Dokania (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder is trained together with a perception component based on a training set comprising unannotated sensor data sets and annotated sensor data sets in a sequence of multiple training steps. Each training step comprises: in a first phase of the training step, updating the set of encoder parameters based on the unannotated sensor data sets, wi...