US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 18 for "Context-based evaluation of image repositories with filtering" (Washington, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,739, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Context-based evaluation of image repositories with filtering" was invented by Andy Daniel Martinez (Pembroke Pines, Fla.), Paul Pangilinan Del Villar (Bothell, Wash.), Pramod Sharma (Seattle), Yijian Xiang (Redmond, Wash.), Zhihui Guo (Kirkland, Wash.) and Nilgoon Zarei (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document relates to context-based evaluations of objects in an image repository. For example, the disclosed implementations can employ image classification and/or object detection models to filter images in an image reposi...