ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,750, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for classification of ambiguous objects" was invented by Terence Neill (Lisburn, Great Britain), William Thomas Calvert (Belfast, Great Britain) and Peter Lawrence (Lisburn, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for object classification, including executing a multi-class object classification model (OCM) on an input image depicting an object, wherein the multi-class OCM is configured to output, for each respective class of...