ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,682, issued on March 18, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Dual stage neural network pipeline systems and methods" was invented by Xi Chen (Annandale, Va.), Mamadou Diallo (San Francisco) and Qiang Xue (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of identifying and recognizing characters using a dual-stage neural network pipeline, the method including: receiving, by a computing device, image data; providing the image data to a first convolutional layer of a convolutional neural network (CNN); applying, using the CNN, pattern recognition to the image data to identify a region of the image data containin...