ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,737, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods for using image data to analyze an image" was invented by Tianyi Yang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Dalong Li (Troy, Mich.) and Juncong Fei (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for training artificial intelligence models based on sequences of image data are disclosed. The techniques described herein include generating, using an artificial intelligence model, a respective classification and a respective bounding box for an object depicted in each image of a sequence of images captured during operation of an autono...