ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,727, issued on June 30, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Path marking detection and classification" was invented by Ruiqi Zhao (Shanghai), Jonathan Edward Barker (Boulder, Colo.), Tommi Koivisto (Espoo, Finland), Yu Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shuang Wu (Fremont, Calif.), Yixuan Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Ge Cong (Pleasanton, Calif.), Andrew Tao (Los Altos, Calif.) and Kezhao Chen (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, multimodal image data may be used to generate a set of top-down tile images, which are applied to a deep neural network generator architecture model to produce lane marking-specifi...