ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,617, issued on March 31, was assigned to Matroid Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Neural network retraining based on image classification feedback" was invented by Huaijin Wang (Redwood City, Calif.), Alexander Jordan Bildner (San Francisco), Amey Patel (Mountain View, Calif.), Andrew Ellison (Newark, Calif.), John Goddard (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ryan Wong (Palo Alto, Calif.), Darin Tay (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Reza Bosagh Zadeh (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods that highlight target objects in media content. The detection system trains a neural network to identify objects within an ima...