ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,940, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for training deep learning classification networks" was invented by Xianzhi Du (College Park, Md.), Mostafa El-Khamy (Durham, N.C.) and Jungwon Lee (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for deep learning training are provided which include receiving a candidate unit for classification. The candidate unit including an intersection area between a ground-truth bounding box and a detection box. The candidate unit is classified by assigning a label that is a probability value that a given feature is obs...