ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,468, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods for using image data to identify a total number of lanes" was invented by Joseph Stamenkovich (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises identifying a set of image data captured by at least one autonomous vehicle when the at least one autonomous vehicle was positioned in a lane of a roadway, and respective ground truth localization data of the at least one autonomous vehicle; determining a total number of lanes for the roadway; labeling the set of image data with the total number of lanes for the roadway; and train...