US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 13 for "Encoding three-dimensional data for processing by capsule neural networks" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,922, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Encoding three-dimensional data for processing by capsule neural networks" was invented by Nitish Srivastava (San Francisco), Ruslan Salakhutdinov (Pittsburgh) and Hanlin Goh (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving three-dimensional geometric elements as an input. The method also includes initializing geometric capsules by assigning one of the three-dimensional geometric elements to each of the geometric capsules and setting initial values for a pose component and a feature component of each of the geometric capsules. The me...