US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 8 for "Image classification by convolutional neural network using radial summation" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,325, issued on July 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Image classification by convolutional neural network using radial summation" was invented by Sebastien Gilbert (Granby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a computer program product, and a computer system classify an image with a convolutional neural network. The method receiving an image. The method includes performing a radial summation on the image to generate a radially summed image. The method includes inputting the radially summed image into the CNN to perform an image classification."

The patent was filed on Nov. 24, 2021...