US Patent Issued to Eli Lilly and Co. on Aug. 18 for "Methods and apparatus for visual-aware hierarchy-based object recognition" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,763, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Eli Lilly and Co. (Indianapolis).

"Methods and apparatus for visual-aware hierarchy-based object recognition" was invented by Edward John Delp III (West Lafayette, Ind.), Jiangpeng He (West Lafayette, Ind.), Runyu Mao (West Lafayette, Ind.), Zeman Shao (West Lafayette, Ind.), Sri Kalyan Yarlagadda (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Fengqing Maggie Zhu (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques described herein relate to computerized methods and apparatus for grouping images of objects based on semantic and visual information associated with the objects. The techniques described...