ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,372, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS Ltd. (Dublin).

"Weighted factorization for human-object-interaction detection" was invented by David Nguyen (Newark, Calif.), Hailing Zhou (Shenzhen, China) and Nan Ke (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations include actions of receiving an image, providing a set of features for the image, determining a set of HOIs including one or more HOIs that are potentially represented in the image, providing sets of feature scores by, for each HOI in the set of HOIs, determining, by a first ML model, a set of feature scores for respective features in the set...