ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,355, issued on March 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Road and infrastructure analysis tool" was invented by Sparsh Garg (San Jose, Calif.), Samuel Schulter (New York) and Vijay Kumar Baikampady Gopalkrishna (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods is provided for road hazard analysis. The method includes obtaining sensor data of a road environment including a road and observable surroundings, and applying labels to the sensor data. The method further includes training a first neural network model to identify road hazards, training a second neural network model to identify faded lane markings, a...