ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,133, issued on July 29, was assigned to Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co. Ltd. (Guizhou, China).

"Domain-specific human-model collaborative annotation tool" was invented by Rui Luo (Bellevue, Wash.), Jiebo Luo (Pittsford, N.Y.) and Lin Chen (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A human-model collaborative annotation system for training human annotators includes a database that stores images previously annotated by an expert human annotator and/or a machine learning annotator, a display that displays images selected from the database, an annotation system that enables human annotators to annotate images presented on the displa...