ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,723, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method and system for data generation" was invented by Isht Dwivedi (Mountain View, Calif.), Kwonjoon Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Cristian Plop (Emeryville, Calif.) and Katherine Yang Xu (Wayne, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating a dataset of damaged signs includes at least one computer configured to receive a first set of image data indicating damaged signs from a first set of classes and undamaged signs from a second set of classes, receive class information indicating a class type for each sign, and receive damage information indicating a da...