ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,406, issued on March 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Object observation prediction in images using encoder-decoder models" was invented by Onur G. Guleryuz (San Francisco) and Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including, in a training phase, training a gaze prediction model including a first model and a second model, the first model and the second model being configured in conjunction to predict segmentation data based on training data, training a third model together with the first model and the second model, the third model being configured to predict a trai...