ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,682, issued on Nov. 18.

"Small target detection method based on improved YOLOv8" was invented by Dengyin Zhang (Nanjing, China), Jia Zhong (Nanjing, China) and Yu Qiu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a small target detection method based on improved YOLOv8, including: inputting a small target image to be detected into a pre-trained small target detection model based on the improved YOLOv8 for identification to obtain a detection result, where a method for training a small target detection model based on the improved YOLOv8 includes: acquiring a small target image data set and dividing th...