ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,891, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Image classifier comprising a non-injective transformation" was invented by Didrik Nielsen (Kobenhavn K, Denmark), Emiel Hoogeboom (Amsterdam), Kaspar Sakmann (Stuttgart, Germany), Max Welling (Amsterdam) and Priyank Jaini (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of training an image classifier which uses any combination of labelled and/or unlabelled training images. The image classifier comprises a set of transformations between respective transformation inputs and transformation outputs. An inverse model is defined in whi...