ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,815, issued on April 21, was assigned to HCL Technologies Ltd. (New Delhi).

"Method and system for instance segmentation of densely packed objects" was invented by Kinjal Dasgupta (Kolkata, India), Sharad Joshi (Udaipur, India), Girin Chutia (Dhemaji, India) and Sainarayanan Gopalakrishnan (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for instance segmentation of densely packed objects is disclosed. The method includes receiving an input image, enhancing the input image to generate an enhanced input image, inputting the enhanced input image to a trained mask R-CNN model to generate a first segmentation map, iter...