ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,528, issued on May 12, was assigned to UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for optimizing human body posture recognition model, device and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Bin Sun (Shenzhen, China), Mingguo Zhao (Shenzhen, China) and Youjun Xiong (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: obtaining heat maps including a predetermined number of key points of a human body; performing depth separable convolution on a feature map corresponding to one of the heat maps corresponding to each of the key points and a convolution kernel of a corresponding channel of the human body posture...