ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,563, issued on May 6, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automated data annotation for computer vision applications" was invented by Karthikeyan Shanmuga Vadivel (San Jose, Calif.), Omar Oreifej (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Patrick A. Worfolk (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for training machine learning models. The present implementations more specifically relate to techniques for automating the annotation of data for training machine learning models. In some aspects, a machine learning system may receive a reference image depicting an object of inte...