ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,773, issued on June 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Cloud model orchestration of spaceborne data" was invented by George Taylor Corbett (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology is generally directed to cloud model orchestration of constrained-environment-device data. In one example of the technology, on a first distributed system, on-cloud models are stored. For each on-cloud model, a corresponding set of reference embeddings is stored. Images obtained from sensors onboard at least one constrained-environment device that is external to the first distributed syst...