ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,214, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Ant Shengxin (Shanghai) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Methods and apparatuses for assisted pet image capturing" was invented by Min Zhu (Hangzhou, China) and Furong Xu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification discloses example computer-implemented methods, computer-readable media and apparatus for assisted image capturing for a pet. In an example, a mapping relationship between several image capturing distance intervals and pet feature types is predetermined. After a pet image capturing instruction is received, a client device invokes an image capturing ...