ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,916, issued on April 14, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Object modeling with adversarial learning" was invented by Eric Zavesky (Austin, Texas), Raghuraman Gopalan (Dublin, Calif.), Behzad Shahraray (Holmdel, N.J.), David Crawford Gibbon (Lincroft, N.J.), Bernard S. Renger (New Providence, N.J.) and Paul Triantafyllou (Watchung, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer-readable media, and devices are disclosed for improving an object model based upon measurements of physical properties of an object via an unmanned vehicle using adversarial examples. For example, a method may include a proces...