US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 23 for "External data collection based on predicted data insufficiency" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,161, issued on June 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"External data collection based on predicted data insufficiency" was invented by Tiberiu Suto (Franklin, N.Y.), Martin G. Keen (Cary, N.C.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for predicting data insufficiency related to performing autonomous vehicle actions and dynamically mitigating the data insufficiency by collecting external data from additional data sources. A processor may direct, for an...