ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,909, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods for using image data to identify lane width" 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 plurality of lane width values for the set of image data; labeling the set of image data with the plurality of lane width values, the p...