ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,155, issued on April 7, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Tracking three-dimensional geometric shapes" was invented by Lingzhi L. Allen (Redmond, Wash.) and Wolfgang M. Pauli (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of geometric shapes to be applied by a machine learning model to objects identified in image data is defined. A learning rate of the machine learning model is updated in response to external events. The machine learning model is used to estimate spatial parameters for each of the objects identified in the image data. The spatial parameters are estimated by fitting the objects to th...