US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Distributed system for efficient entity recognition" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,559, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Distributed system for efficient entity recognition" was invented by Aakash Deep (Redmond, Wash.), Jia Bi Zhang (Kirkland, Wash.) and Jonathan Hedley (Mittagong, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first encoding representing a set of detected signals is obtained at a sensor-proximity resource of an object recognition application which also includes resources of an analytics service of a provider network. In response to a determination that a cache at the sensor-proximity resource does not include a second encoding which satisfies a similarity criterion...