ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,848, issued on April 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Estimated online hard negative mining via probabilistic selection and scores history consideration" was invented by Ran Bakalo (Haifa, Israel) and Dana Levanony (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for hard negative training is provided. The embodiment may include a computer receiving a training set, where the training set comprises one or more training samples. The computer trains a deep neural network (DNN) with the training set. The embodimen...