US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 17 for "Visual attribute expansion via multiple machine learning models" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,220, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Visual attribute expansion via multiple machine learning models" was invented by Pramod Kumar Sharma (Seattle), Yijian Xiang (Redmond, Wash.), Yiran Li (Bunaby, Canada), Paul Pangilinan Del Villar (Bothell, Wash.), Liang Du (Redmond, Wash.), Robin Abraham (Redmond, Wash.), Nilgoon Zarei (Kirkland, Wash.) and Mandar Dilip Dixit (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes receiving an image that includes a type of object, segmenting the object into multiple segments via a trained segmentation machine learni...