ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,294, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Data synthesis for autonomous control systems" was invented by Forrest Nelson Iandola (San Jose, Calif.), Donald Benton MacMillen (Hillsborough, Calif.), Anting Shen (Berkeley, Calif.), Harsimran Singh Sidhu (Fremont, Calif.) and Paras Jagdish Jain (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous control system generates synthetic data that reflect simulated environments. Specifically, the synthetic data is a representation of sensor data of the simulated environment from the perspective of one or more sensors. The system generates synthetic data by i...