US Patent Issued to Samsara on Sept. 8 for "Self-service framework for detecting visual concepts" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,378, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Self-service framework for detecting visual concepts" was invented by Akshay Raj Dhamija (Campbell, Calif.), Sven Eberhardt (Seattle), Yan Wang (Mercer Island, Wash.), Phil Ammirato (Campbell, Calif.), Brian Westphal (Livermore, Calif.), William Nathan Hurst (Seattle) and William Evan Welbourne (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are described for enabling end users to create and refine object detection models using natural language and visual inputs. A user provides a prompt describing a target object. This prompt is processed to generate ...