ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,946, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to EAGLE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Object detection device incorporating quantum computing and game theoretic optimization and related methods" was invented by Mark D. Rahmes (Melbourne, Fla.), Glenn Boudreaux (Melbourne, Fla.), William W. Watkins (Melbourne Beach, Fla.), Morteza Akbari (Rockledge, Fla.), Michael C. Garrett (Melbourne, Fla.) and Chad Lau (Melbourne, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection device may include a variational autoencoder (VAE) configured to encode image data to generate a latent vector, and decode the latent vector to generate new image data. T...