ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,156, issued on June 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Input image size switchable network for adaptive runtime efficient image classification" was invented by Anbang Yao (Beijing), Yikai Wang (Beijing), Ming Lu (Beijing), Shandong Wang (Beijing) and Feng Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques related to implementing and training image classification networks are discussed. Such techniques include applying shared convolutional layers to input images regardless of resolution and applying normalization selectively based on the input image resolution. Such techniques further include training using mi...