ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,315, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing transferable visual words by exploiting the semantics of anatomical patterns for self-supervised learning" was invented by Fatemeh Haghighi (Tempe, Ariz.), Mohammad Reza Hosseinzadeh Taher (Tempe, Ariz.), Zongwei Zhou (Tempe, Ariz.) and Jianming Liang (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are means for the generation of Transferable Visual Word (TransVW) models through self-supervised learning in the absence of manual labeling, in w...