ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,560, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Bilateral attention transformer in motion-appearance neighboring space for video object segmentation" was invented by Ye Yu (Redmond, Wash.), Gaurav Mittal (Redmond, Wash.), Mei Chen (Bellevue, Wash.) and Jialin Yuan (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example solutions for video object segmentation (VOS) use a bilateral attention transformer in motion-appearance neighboring space, and perform a process that includes: receiving a video stream comprising a plurality of video frames in a sequence; receiving a first object mask for ...