ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,617, issued on July 14, was assigned to Bentley Systems Inc. (Exton, Pa.).

"Techniques for improving data efficiency in image-based machine learning" was invented by Oscar Ozdemir (Quebec City), Marc-Andre Gardner (Quebec City), Karl-Alexandre Jahjah (Quebec City), Marc-Andre Lapointe (Quebec City) and Louis-Philippe Asselin (Quebec City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In example embodiments, a dataset labeling software process combines diversity selection and with one or more uncertainty selection techniques in a multi-stage process that produces a labeled training dataset for training an image-based ML model. In an initial stage, di...