ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,390, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (Gwangju, South Korea).

"Hierarchical occlusion module and unseen object amodal instance segmentation system and method using the same" was invented by Seunghyeok Back (Gwangju, South Korea), Kyoobin Lee (Gwangju, South Korea), Joosoon Lee (Gwangju, South Korea), Taewon Kim (Gwangju, South Korea), Raeyoung Kang (Gwangju, South Korea), Sangjun Noh (Gwangju, South Korea) and Seongho Bak (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The hierarchical occlusion inference method according to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: ...