US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 27 for "Neural network target feature detection" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,249, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Neural network target feature detection" was invented by Hamidreza Vaezi Joze (Redmond, Wash.), Vivek Pradeep (Redmond, Wash.) and Karthik Vijayan (Berkshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of training a neural network for detecting target features in images is described. The neural network is trained using a first data set that includes labeled images, where at least some of the labeled images having subjects with labeled features, including: dividing each of the labeled images of the first data set into a respective ...