ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,559, issued on June 24, was assigned to ObjectVideo Labs LLC (Tysons, Va.).

"Training an object classifier with a known object in images of unknown objects" was invented by Yuanwei Wu (McLean, Va.), Gang Qian (McLean, Va.) and Allison Beach (Leesburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for objection classification. One of the methods includes: obtaining a first set of images of objects that have a likelihood of being at a property that satisfies a likelihood threshold; generating, for each object, a binary classifier from a set of images o...