ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,669, issued on June 23, was assigned to Insurance Services Office Inc. (Jersey City, N.J.).

"Computer vision systems and methods for unsupervised learning for progressively aligning noisy contours" was invented by Venkata Subbarao Veeravarasapu (Munich), Abhishek Goel (Rohini, India), Deepak Mittal (Haryana, India) and Maneesh Kumar Singh (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer vision systems and methods for noisy contour alignment are provided. The system generates a loss function and trains a convolutional neural network with the loss function and a plurality of images of a dataset to learn to align contours with p...