ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,931, issued on April 14, was assigned to ZENSEACT AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Identification of unknown traffic objects" was invented by Willem Verbeke (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Olle Mansson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating training data for a machine learning (ML) algorithm configured for identification of an unknown traffic object present on a road is disclosed. The method includes obtaining sensor data from a sensor system of an ego vehicle travelling on the road, the sensor data including one or more images of a surrounding environment of the vehicle and speed information of the ego vehicle...