US Patent Issued to Novateur Research Solutions on March 11 for "System and method for rare object localization and search in overhead imagery" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,123, issued on March 11, was assigned to Novateur Research Solutions (Ashburn, Va.).

"System and method for rare object localization and search in overhead imagery" was invented by Zeeshan Rasheed (Great Falls, Va.), Jonathan Jacob Amazon (Haymarket, Va.) and Khurram Hassan-Shafique (Aldie, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feature extractor and novel training objective are provided for content-based image retrieval. For example, a computer-implemented method includes applying a query image and a search image to a neural network of a feature extraction network of a computing device, the query image indicating an object to be sear...