ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,214, issued on May 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Object detection" was invented by Carlo Biffi (London), Steven George Mcdonagh (London), Ales Leonardis (London) and Sarah Parisot (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for categorising regions in images is disclosed. The device comprising: an input for receiving a first set of images, and defining one or more regions of for each image of the first set of images and a categorisation for the one or more regions, and a second set of images, and a categorisation for each image of the second set; and a processor configured to train a first ...