ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,521, issued on June 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Training multi-object tracking models using simulation" was invented by Ishani Chakraborty (Seattle), Jonathan C. Hanzelka (Kenmore, Wash.), Lu Yuan (Redmond, Wash.), Pedro Urbina Escos (Seattle) and Thomas M. Soemo (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Training a multi-object tracking model includes: generating a plurality of training images based at least on scene generation information, each training image comprising a plurality of objects to be tracked; generating, for each training image, original simulated data based at least ...