ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,361, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Entity recognition method and apparatus, and computer program product" was invented by Yushen Chen (Beijing), Hongda Yue (Beijing), Haiyang Xu (Beijing), Guangyao Han (Beijing), Liangjie Zhang (Beijing), Wenhao Fang (Beijing), Bohao Feng (Beijing), Fei Xiao (Beijing) and Liangxu Quan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entity recognition method and apparatus, an electronic device, a storage medium, and a computer program product are provided. The method includes: recognizing a to-be-recognized image to determine a preliminary ...