ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,318, issued on June 2, was assigned to Constructor Technology AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) and Constructor Education and Research Genossenschaft (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"System and method for fast adaptive brands logos detection on video with open set approach" was invented by Andrei Boiarov (Sofia, Bulgaria), Ilya Shimchik (Istanbul), Nikita Firsakov (Istanbul), Pavlo Bredikhin (Kharkov, Ukraine), Sergey Ulasen (Singapore), Serg Bell (Singapore), Stanislav Protasov (Singapore) and Nikolay Dobrovolskiy (Sofia, Bulgaria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for performing brand detection in a video is disclosed here...