ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,982, issued on May 13, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for partially supervised online action detection in untrimmed videos" was invented by Mingfei Gao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yingbo Zhou (Mountain View, Calif.), Ran Xu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Caiming Xiong (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for a partially supervised training model for online action detection. Specifically, the online action detection framework may include two modules that are trained jointly-a Temporal Proposal Generator (TPG) and an Online Action Recogn...