ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,501, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NANCHANG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Nanchang, China).

"Method and system for tracking object by aggregation network based on hybrid convolution and self-attention" was invented by Jun Wang (Nanchang, China) and Peng Yin (Nanchang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Corresponding template features and search features are obtained by convolution operation, and respectively used as input features in aggregation modules. Intermediate features are obtained by performing convolution operation on the input features. The aggregation modules share the same convolution operation, and hybrid convolution in ...