ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,939, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDS AMERICA INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Object discovery using an autoencoder" was invented by Hankyu Moon (San Ramon, Calif.), Heng Hao (San Jose, Calif.), Sima Didari (San Jose, Calif.), Jae Oh Woo (Fremont, Calif.) and Patrick David Bangert (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A problem of supervised learning is overcome by using patches to discover objects in unlabeled training images. The discovered objects are embedded in a pattern space. An AI machine replaces manual entry steps of training with a machine-centric process including clustering in a pixel space, clusterin...