US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 24 for "Workload reduction for non-maximum suppression operation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,345, issued on March 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Workload reduction for non-maximum suppression operation" was invented by Abinash Mohanty (San Jose, Calif.) and Randy Renfu Huang (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for improving the computational time for performing a non-maximum suppression operation may include receiving a request to perform a non-maximum suppression operation on a set of candidate predictions of a computing task, and performing a statistical analysis on a set of confidence scores to reduce the set of candidate predictions. Candidate predictions from the re...