US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for open vocabulary instance segmentation in unannotated images" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,340, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for open vocabulary instance segmentation in unannotated images" was invented by Ning Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Vibashan Vishnukumar Sharmini (Palo Alto, Calif.), Chen Xing (Palo Alto, Calif.), Juan Carlos Niebles Duque (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ran Xu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide an open-vocabulary instance segmentation framework that adopts a pre-trained vision-language model to develop a pipeline in detecting novel categories of instances."

The patent was filed on Jan. 25, 202...