ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,559, issued on June 2, was assigned to POST URBAN IP Ltd. (Mildenhall, Great Britain).

"Network for detecting edge cases for use in training autonomous vehicle control systems" was invented by Luke Anthony William Robinson (Shrewsbury, Great Britain), Vladimir Ceperic (Shrewsbury, Great Britain) and Daniel Warner (Shrewsbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to the detection of edge cases through application of a neural network to predict future vehicle environment data and identifying an edge case when the prediction error exceeds a given threshold. This allows edge cases to be identified based on unexp...