ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,859, issued on June 3, was assigned to SEE-OUT PTY LTD (Brisbane, Australia).

"Image classification and labeling" was invented by Sandra Mau (Pittsburgh) and Sabesan Sivapalan (Kelvin Grove, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of training an image classification model includes obtaining training images associated with labels, where two or more labels of the labels are associated with each of the training images and where each label of the two or more labels corresponds to an image classification class. The method further includes classifying training images into one or more classes using a deep convolutional neural netwo...