US Patent Issued on July 29 for "Method for clustering and identifying animals based on the shapes, relative positions and other features of body parts" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,080, issued on July 29.

"Method for clustering and identifying animals based on the shapes, relative positions and other features of body parts" was invented by Stephanie Sujin Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyeong In Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the clustering and identification of animals in acquired images based on physical traits is provided, where a trait feature is a scalar or vector quantity that is a property of a trait and trait distance is a measure of discrepancy between the same trait features of two animals, and also introduced are several different ways of implementing clustering u...