ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,681, issued on July 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Asynchronously updating object detections within a video stream" was invented by Srinivasan Iyengar (Bangalore, India), Venkata N. Padmanabhan (Bengaluru, India), Anuj Rathore (Bengaluru, India) and Anurag Ghosh (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Asynchronously updating object detections within a video stream. A first set of objects associated a first frame include a first object detected by a first detection model. Object detection is initiated on a second frame by a second detection model. A second set of objects are identified as ...