ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,239, issued on March 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hybrid system for feature detection and descriptor generation" was invented by Ahmed Kamel Sadek (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for processing sensor data. For example, a process can include obtaining input data and processing, using a non-machine learning based feature detector feature detector, the input data to determine one or more feature points in the input data. The process can further include determining, using a machine learning system, a respective feature descriptor for each respective feature point of the one...