ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,261, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PlusAI Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Data augmentation for detour path configuring" was invented by Abhishek Bhatia (Savoy, Ill.), Inderjot Singh Saggu (Cupertino, Calif.) and Ankur Agarwal (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to augmenting training images used for generating vehicle driving models. A computer system obtains a first image of a road, identifies within the first image a drivable area of the road, obtains an image of a traffic safety object, and determines a detour path on the drivable area. The computer system determines positions of a plur...