ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,595, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Method and system for mixing static scene and live annotations for efficient labeled image dataset collection" was invented by Matthew A. Shreve (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jeyasri Subramanian (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided which mixes static scene and live annotations for labeled dataset collection. A first recording device obtains a 3D mesh of a scene with physical objects. The first recording device marks, while in a first mode, first annotations for a physical object displayed in the 3D mesh. The system switches to a sec...