ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,885, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Artificial intelligence apparatus and method for detecting unseen class items thereof" was invented by Hyoeun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Kamin Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Seungah Chae (Seoul, South Korea), Heeyeon Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Yeonjee Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyejeong Jeon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an artificial intelligence apparatus capable of classifying and detecting an item of an unseen class having high visual similarity to an item of a seen class that has been learned a...