US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 2 for "Fusion of segmentation masks for field boundary detection" (Brazilian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,287, issued on June 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Fusion of segmentation masks for field boundary detection" was invented by Rafael Soares Padilha (Campinas, Brazil), Leonardo De Oliveira Nunes (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Roberto De Moura Estevao Filho (Teresopolis, Brazil) and Ranveer Chandra (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized method performs fusion of segmentation masks to generate a refined segmentation mask. A plurality of segmentation masks, each including a group of segments, is obtained for a geographic area. For each segmentation mask, a subgroup of segments ...