ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,470, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Lemon Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Single-stage open-vocabulary panoptic segmentation" was invented by Qihang Yu (Los Angeles), Ju He (Los Angeles), Xueqing Deng (Los Angeles), Xiaohui Shen (Los Angeles) and Liang-Chieh Chen (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Single-stage frameworks for open-vocabulary panoptic segmentation are provided. One aspect provides a computing system comprising a processor and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive an image; extract a plurality of feature maps from the image using a convolutiona...