ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,674, issued on July 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for improved computer vision in on-device applications" was invented by Qifei Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alexander Kuznetsov (Mountain View, Calif.), Alec Michael Go (Milpitas, Calif.), Grace Chu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Eunyoung Kim (Mountain View, Calif.), Feng Yang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Andrew Gerald Howard (Culver City, Calif.) and Jeffrey M. Gilbert (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to object and/or character recognition for use in applications such as computer vision. Advantages of the ...