ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,365, issued on March 24, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Object classification using multiple labels for autonomous systems and applications" was invented by Rui Shen (San Jose, Calif.), Sebastian Michael Agethen (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jian xing Zhang (North York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, multilabel hierarchical classification of objects for autonomous systems and applications is described herein. Systems and methods are disclosed that use one or more neural networks to classify objects, such as traffic signs, using multilabel classification and/or hierarchical classificati...