ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,108, issued on July 29, was assigned to ROYAL BANK OF CANADA (Toronto).

"System and method for unsupervised scene decomposition using spatio-temporal iterative inference" was invented by Polina Zablotskaia (Vancouver, Canada), Leonid Sigal (Vancouver, Canada) and Andreas Steffen Michael Lehrmann (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for unsupervised multi-object scene decomposition that involve a spatio-temporal amortized inference model for multi-object video decomposition. Systems and methods involve a new spatio-temporal iterative inference framework to jointly model complex multi-object representat...