ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,370, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SeaSatellites Inc. (San Diego).
"Range estimation in autonomous maritime vehicles" was invented by Dylan Rodriguez (San Diego) and Michael Flanigan (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention include systems and methods for range estimation in autonomous maritime vehicles through use of an image processing model. The model comprises a neural network that informs the vehicle as to the ranges of real-world objects based on a diversified set of synthetic and real-world training data. During training, the model estimates the ranges of objects and/or subcomponents extracte...