ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,046, issued on April 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Feature detection based on neural networks" was invented by JingChang Huang (Shanghai), Guo Qiang Hu (Shanghai), Peng Ji (Nanjing, China), Yuan Yuan Ding (Shanghai), Sheng Nan Zhu (Shanghai) and Jinfeng Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of different images of a same region of interest in an object are input into a set of neural networks, wherein each image of the region has been captured under a different value of a variable condition. A classification for each image is generated by the set of neural networks, wherein ...