ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,823, issued on June 30, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Track refinement networks" was invented by Jiong Yang (Singapore) and Lubing Zhou (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for a track refinement network. In examples, center boxes are obtained from a record of driving data, wherein a center box is a center of a sequence of boxes along a track, and the track is associated with a tracked object detected within the sequence of boxes, each respective box comprising a center, a size, and an orientation. Track windows are generated around respective center boxes, wherein a track window corresponds to ...