ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,858, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Data drift identification for sensor systems" was invented by Sandhya Bhaskar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jinesh Jain (South San Francisco, Calif.), Nikita Jaipuria (Pittsburgh) and Shreyasha Paudel (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to identify a data drift in a trained object detection deep neural network (DNN) includes receiving a dataset based on real world use, wherein the dataset includes scores associated with each class in an image, including a background (BG) class, measuring an intersection-over-union (IoU) con...