US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 21 for "Image analytics using embeddings" (Mississippi, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,680, issued on July 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Image analytics using embeddings" was invented by Thomas Cilloni (Oxford, Miss.), Charles Fleming (Oxford, Miss.), Ramana Rao V. R. Kompella (Foster City, Calif.) and Gaowen Liu (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a device receives, via a user interface, one or more parameters regarding formation of an embedding of an image. The device forms, in accordance with the one or more parameters, an embedding of the image by inputting it to a machine learning-based encoder model that was trained to maximize a measure of data ut...