ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,569, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Unpaired image-to-image translation using a generative adversarial network (GAN)" was invented by Nick Shadbeh Evans (Lynnwood, Wash.), Jasper Patrick Corleis (Renton, Wash.) and Amir Afrasiabi (University Place, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for identifying objects receives a dataset comprising an image having first real image features; trains a neural network to recognize the first real image features in the received dataset; and performs a synthetic image augmentation to generate synthetic image features corresponding to the first real imag...