US Patent Issued to Apple on May 27 for "Machine learning based object identification" (California, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,771, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Machine learning based object identification" was invented by Ke-Yu Chen (San Ramon, Calif.), James T. Curran (Cupertino, Calif.), Jun Gong (Hanover, N.H.) and Gierad Laput (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide techniques to enable spatial sensor data from multiple devices to be fused into a single coordinate space. This fused sensor data can then be processed into a point cloud. Point cloud data can then be transformed to enable the classification of objects detected within the sensor data. Features within multiple featu...