ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,664, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Processing picture-text data" was invented by Liming Pu (Hangzhou, China), Zhongzhou Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Shuiling He (Hangzhou, China), Xuming Lin (Hangzhou, China) and Ji Zhang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is used to automatically generate a picture-text description file containing text(s) and picture(s), including: acquiring a text material related to a target object; acquiring, according to information of the target object, a plurality of picture materials related to the target object; extracting first feature infor...