ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,275, issued on March 24, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Loss scaling for neural networks" was invented by Blythe Towal (San Diego), Carolina Parada (Boulder, Colo.), Vijay Chintalapudi (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Maroof Mohammed Farooq (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigation path can be determined for an object using one or more neural networks. In various embodiments, image data is obtained that is representative of an environment in which the object is to be navigated. Relevant features are identified from the image, and a curve fit to those features. Loss values for the potential paths are sc...