ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,944, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Position Imaging Inc. (Portsmouth, N.H.).

"Machine-learning-assisted self-improving object-identification system and method" was invented by Narasimhachary Nallana Chakravarty (Rollinsford, N.H.), Guohua Min (Exeter, N.H.), Edward L. Hill (Conway, N.H.) and Brett Bilbrey (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of identifying and tracking objects comprises registering an identity of a person who visits an area designated for holding objects, capturing an image of the area designated for holding objects, submitting a version of the image to a deep neural network traine...