ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,376, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods for automatically generating a training dataset for training an optical recognition model for reading street signs" was invented by Benjamin Per Hansson (Linkoping, Sweden), Karl Olof Erik Wernholt (Linkoping, Sweden), Carl Per Gunnar Ekman (Linkoping, Sweden), Patrick Hiemsch (Linkoping, Sweden), Akshay Gurudath (Linkoping, Sweden) and Shirdi Manjunath Adigarla (Linkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include methods for generating image datasets for training an artificial intelligence machine learning (AI/ML) optical character r...