US Patent Issued to Zoox on July 28 for "Generation of thermal images from visible images" (Maryland, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,845, issued on July 28, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Generation of thermal images from visible images" was invented by Philippe Martin Burlina (Rockville, Md.), Subhasis Das (San Mateo, Calif.), Marianna Hajar Neubauer (Seattle) and Yu Hsin Chang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating image data of a modality different from a visible light modality are discussed herein. For example, visible light images may be readily available for training and testing vehicle systems, but corresponding image data of a thermal modality may not be available. In examples, one or more trained mach...