ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,313, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Rapiscan Holdings Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Object detection training based on artificially generated images" was invented by Ian Cinnamon (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Bruno Brasil Ferrari Faviero (San Francisco) and Simanta Gautam (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology disclosed herein may involve a computing system that (i) based on an image of a target object of a given class of object and at least one GAN configured to generate artificial images of the given class of object, generates an artificial image of the target object that is substantially similar to real-world im...