ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,623, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Conditional object-centric learning with slot attention for video and other sequential data" was invented by Thomas Kipf (Amsterdam), Gamaleldin Elsayed (Milpitas, Calif.), Aravindh Mahendran (Berlin), Austin Charles Stone (San Francisco), Sara Sabour Rouh Aghdam (Toronto), Georg Heigold (Aachen, Germany), Rico Jonschkowski (Mountain View, Calif.), Alexey Dosovitskiy (Berlin) and Klaus Greff (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining first feature vectors and second feature vectors representing contents of a first and second image f...