ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,624, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to EAGLE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Change detection device and related methods" was invented by Mark D. Rahmes (Melbourne, Fla.), Glenn Boudreaux (Melbourne, Fla.) and William W. Watkins (Melbourne Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A change detection device may include a variational autoencoder (VAE) configured to encode image data to generate a latent vector, and decode the latent vector to generate new image data. The change detection device may further include a controller configured to select a deep learning model from different deep learning models based upon the new image...