ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,596, issued on April 21, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Computer vision models using global and local information" was invented by Ruofei Du (San Francisco), Yinda Zhang (Daly City, Calif.) and Weihao Zeng (Taichung city, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a computer vision model configured to perform a machine learning task is described. The computer vision model includes multiple wrapped convolutional layers, in which each wrapped convolutional layer includes a respective convolutional layer configured to receive, for each time step of multiple time steps, a layer input and to process th...