US Patent Issued to WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS ON BEHALF OF WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY on March 17 for "Systems and methods for domain adaptive object instance segmentation" (West Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,788, issued on March 17, was assigned to WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS ON BEHALF OF WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY (Morgantown, W.va.).

"Systems and methods for domain adaptive object instance segmentation" was invented by Gianfranco Doretto (Morgantown, W.va.) and Matthew Richardson Keaton (Morgantown, W.va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for object segmentation include providing a pre-trained neural network model to segment object instances based on a first set of images and a first loss function. The neural network, for a pixel, can generate a gradient flow that points towards a center of an object stru...