ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,655, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"System and method for unsupervised learning of segmentation tasks" was invented by Qingfeng Liu (San Diego), Mostafa El-Khamy (San Diego) and Yuewei Yang (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods are provided for training a feature extraction model determining a loss function for use in unsupervised image segmentation. A method includes determining a clustering loss from an image; determining a weakly supervised contrastive loss of the image using cluster pseudo labels based on the clustering loss; and determining the loss...