US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 30 for "Image recognition using machine learning models with masked classification layers" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,697, issued on June 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Image recognition using machine learning models with masked classification layers" was invented by Jose Ariel Keselman (Kyriat Tivon, Israel) and Eyal Itzhak Nitzany (Gilon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning model may be trained to detect items depicted within images captured in a materials handling facility. Activations generated in response to inputs including images are provided to a masking component programmed with a support set including identifiers of items, such as items within a field of view of a camera that captured the imag...