ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,826, issued on April 14, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Neural network-based pose estimation and registration method and device for heterogeneous images, and medium" was invented by Yue Wang (Hangzhou, China), Zexi Chen (Hangzhou, China), Xuecheng Xu (Hangzhou, China) and Rong Xiong (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of image processing. Disclosed are a neural network-based pose estimation and registration method for heterogeneous images. In the present invention, a phase correlation algorithm is optimized to be differentiable and embedded into an end-t...