US Patent Issued to University of Ulster on June 10 for "Image classification using retinal ganglion cell modelling" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,389, issued on June 10, was assigned to University of Ulster (Londonderry, Great Britain).

"Image classification using retinal ganglion cell modelling" was invented by Dermot Kerr (Londonderry, Great Britain), Sonya Coleman (Randalstown, Great Britain) and Martin McGinnity (Londonderry, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing a digital image for use by a digital image classifier comprises: processing the digital image with computational models of a retinal ganglion cell (RGC) to produce sets of digital image features; and combining the sets of digital image features to produce a multi-channel retina model ...