ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,879, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Object recognition subject to a throttling effect" was invented by Daniel J. Serna (The Colony, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for dynamically controlling application of a graphic processing unit ("GPU") based on the current processing needs is described. A number of objects in each image may be detected. A machine learning model may be utilized to detect and classify objects in each image. Based on the number of detected objects, the GPU could be switched on to provide increased image processing performance. Dynamically turn...