ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,335, issued on July 8.

"Generation of non-primary-class samples from primary-class-only dataset" was invented by Kirt Dwayne Lillywhite (Provo, Utah), Curtis Martin Koelling (Springville, Utah), Craig William Call (Orem, Utah) and Matthew Ryan Heydorn (Provo, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ASDGS (Artificially Spiked Data Generation System) may comprise computing and mechanical systems for using a single class of data to generate artificially "spiked" data of a second class. To generate each spiked image, the ASDGS may randomly select a clean image an augmentation object ("AO") from an object library, shape library, and/or hair...