US Patent Issued to Torc Robotics on April 7 for "Systems and methods for using image data to analyze an image" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,270, issued on April 7, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods for using image data to analyze an image" was invented by Ryan Chilton (Blacksburg, Va.), Harish Pullagurla (Blacksburg, Va.) and Joseph Stamenkovich (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for training and executing machine learning models to generate lane index values are disclosed. A method includes identifying a set of image data captured by at least one autonomous vehicle when the at least autonomous vehicle is positioned in a lane of a roadway and respective ground truth localization data; determining a...