ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,654, issued on July 14, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Backend learnable decoder to facilitate autonomous vehicle operation" was invented by Vikram Bharadwaj (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Aaron Brown (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Thomas Monninger (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backend computing system can receive compressed sensor data from a database of one or more vehicles that operate throughout a road network. The system can execute a set of learnable decoders on the compressed sensor data to decompress the compressed sensor data in accordance with a set of tasks of the set of learnable decode...