US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 14 for "Automated evaluation of spatial relationships in images" (Washington, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,106, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automated evaluation of spatial relationships in images" was invented by Hamid Palangi (Kirkland, Wash.), Besmira Nushi (Woodinville, Wash.), Vibhav Vineet (Bellevue, Wash.), Eric J. Horvitz (Kirkland, Wash.), Semiha E. Kamar Eden (Redmond, Wash.) and Tejas Gokhale (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document relates to automated analysis of images. One example method involves obtaining an image and text associated with the image, detecting two or more objects in the image, and determining respective locations of the two or mor...