ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,829, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for self-supervised learning for visual feature representation of egocentric images" was invented by Jungseok Hong (Minneapolis), Suveer Garg (New York), Jinwook Huh (Millburn, N.J.), Hyun Soo Park (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Ibrahim Volkan Isler (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device for manipulating a target object, including: a camera; a memory; and at least one processor configured to: obtain a first image of the target object, wherein the first image is captured by the camera, provide the ...