ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,202, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Human characteristic normalization with an autoencoder" was invented by Javier Hernandez Rivera (Boston), Daniel McDuff (Cambridge, Mass.) and Mary P. Czerwinski (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for. A method can include obtaining a normalizing autoencoder, the normalizing autoencoder trained based on first data samples of a template person and second data samples of a variety of people, normalizing, by the normalizing autoencoder, an input data sample by combining dyn...