ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,147, issued on March 11, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Adaptive selection of data modalities for efficient video recognition" was invented by Rameswar Panda (Medford, Mass.), Richard Chen (Baldwin Place, N.Y.), Quanfu Fan (Lexington, Mass.) and Rogerio Schmidt Feris (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the invention provides a method for video recognition. The method comprises receiving an input video comprising a sequence of video segments over a plurality of data modalities. The method further comprises, for a video segment of the sequence, selecting one or...