US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 3 for "Techniques for enabling on-device shape recognition" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,196, issued on June 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Techniques for enabling on-device shape recognition" was invented by Biyi Fang (Kirkland, Wash.) and Yibo Sun (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system implements training a first convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify shapes in digital ink inputs, the first CNN being trained to receive ink stroke information as an input and to output an indication whether the ink stroke information represents a hand drawn geometric shape. The data processing system further implements compressing the first CNN to generate...