US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 28 for "Encoding irregular shapes using angle-based contour descriptors" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,545, issued on July 28, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Encoding irregular shapes using angle-based contour descriptors" was invented by Tianyi Chen (Kenmore, Wash.), Tianyu Ding (Kirkland, Wash.), Luming Liang (Redmond, Wash.) and Ilya Dmitriyevich Zharkov (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a processor of a computing system is described herein, where the method includes obtaining an image that includes an object having a shape, where a boundary of the shape of the object in the digital image is labeled in the digital image. The method also includes computing a...