ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,966, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Few-shot logo recognition system" was invented by Kevin Sarabia Dela Rosa (Seattle), Hao Hu (Bellevue, Wash.) and Pengxiang Wu (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for building a few-shot logo recognition system that includes accessing an image with several regions of interest and identifying several objects within the regions of interest using a logo detector neural network. For each object, the logo detector neural network indicates whether the object is a logo. The methods and systems also generate a first and seco...