ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,928, issued on June 16, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Approximately-paired simulation-to-real image translation" was invented by Ashish Shrivastava (San Jose, Calif.) and Charles Yingjia Zhang (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are embodiments for facilitating approximately-paired simulation-to-real image translation. In some aspects, a method includes receiving, by a processing device performing training on a model, an approximately-paired image pair comprising a real image and a simulated image, wherein the simulated image is generated from the real image using contextual data of the real im...