US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on July 21 for "Method and system for optimization of a human-machine team for geographic region digitization" (Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,683, issued on July 21, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Method and system for optimization of a human-machine team for geographic region digitization" was invented by Steven M. Dennis (Covington, La.) and Christopher J. Michael (Covington, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that includes receiving a set of one or more images, each having one or more sets of pixels, receiving a ground truth value that a vertex point associated with a transition between two regions in a respective set of pixels, identifying a machine placement candid...