ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,741, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Eli Lilly and Co. (Indianapolis).

"Methods and apparatus for incremental learning using stored features" was invented by Edward John Delp III (West Lafayette, Ind.), Jiangpeng He (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Fengqing Maggie Zhu (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computerized techniques are provided for storing a set of representative features for use with a machine learning process. A first set of training images for a class are accessed and processed, using a feature extraction technique, to determine a set of features for the class. A set of representative features from the se...