ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,595, issued on July 14, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"System and method for transfer semantic segmentation via learnable image prompting of foundation models" was invented by Jonathan Francis (Pittsburgh), Rajshekhar Das (Pittsburgh), Sanket Vaibhav Mehta (Pittsburgh) and Tanmay Kulkarni (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a controller configured to receive one or more fixed text prompts and one or more images, wherein the fixed text prompts are associated with the one or more images. The controller is further configured to, in response to utilizing the fixed text prompt and the one or more im...