ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,708, issued on March 18.

"Object detection model training" was invented by Christian Amari Nichols (Brockton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a model to detect objects. One of the methods includes maintaining first training data that represents at least a plurality of first images of invertebrate fossils; determining, using at least one or more geographic properties of a geographic region, one or more transformations from a group comprising: a pixel group translation, a pixel group two-dimensional rotation, a changed bac...