US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on July 8 for "System and method with spherical autoencoder for object discovery" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,230, issued on July 8, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"System and method with spherical autoencoder for object discovery" was invented by Sindy Lowe (Amsterdam), Maja Rudolph (Madison, Wis.), Max Welling (Belgium, Netherlands) and Filipe Condessa (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented system and method relate to object discovery. The system and method include receiving a source image and generating input data by associating each pixel of the source image with predetermined phase values. An encoder encodes the input data to generate latent representation data in spherical coordinates....