ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,332, issued on June 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Neural networks to identify objects with structured identifiers" was invented by Michael Robert Bocamazo (Framingham, Mass.), Yuxuan Chen (Toronto), Seyed Pourya Hoseini Alinodehi (Medfield, Mass.), Siyao Hu (Grafton, Mass.) and Frank Preiswerk (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying manipulated items using neural networks. Systems generate, using a first neural network, indications of an object of interest from the two or more objects in one or more images. Systems identify, using a second neural netw...