ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,138, issued on March 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Technologies Inc. (San Diego).

"Context-driven learning of human-object interactions" was invented by Mert Kilickaya (Amsterdam), Noureldien Mahmoud Elsayed Hussein (Amsterdam), Efstratios Gavves (Amsterdam) and Arnold Wilhelmus Maria Smeulders (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for classifying a human-object interaction includes identifying a human-object interaction in the input. Context features of the input are identified. Each identified context feature is compared with the identified human-object interaction. An importance of the identified context feature is de...