ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,057, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cut-paste training augmentation for machine learning models" was invented by Deep Patel (Franklin Park, N.J.), Giovanni Milione (Monmouth Junction, N.J.), Kai Li (Plainsboro, N.J.), Farley Lai (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Erik Kruus (Hillsborough, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems of training a machine learning model include identifying an object or person related to an action in a first video. The object or person is copied from the first video to a second video to generate a third video. A machine learning model is trained using the first video and the...