ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,887, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Machine localization accuracy" was invented by Vishisht Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Amir Akbarzadeh (San Jose, Calif.) and Yu Sheng (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, accuracy determinations for localization in autonomous and semi-autonomous systems and applications are described herein. Systems and methods are disclosed that determine one or more errors associated with vehicle localization using various types of sensor data generated using a vehicle. For instance, a first component of the vehicle may use a map and first sensor d...