US Patent Issued to Northeastern University on March 3 for "Infant 2D pose estimation and posture detection system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,173, issued on March 3, was assigned to Northeastern University (Boston).

"Infant 2D pose estimation and posture detection system" was invented by Sarah Ostadabbas (Watertown, Mass.), Xiaofei Huang (Lynnfield, Mass.), Nihang Fu (Malden, Mass.) and Shuangjun Liu (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for estimating a pose of an infant using image analysis and artificial intelligence. A classifier is trained using a dataset containing hybrid synthetic and real infant pose data. Multi-stage invariant representation machine learning strategies are employed that transfer knowledge from adjacent domains of adult poses ...