ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,057, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.).

"Face recognition system using quality adaptive margins and method of performing the same" was invented by Minchul Kim (East Lansing, Mich.), Anil K. Jain (Okemos, Mich.) and Xiaoming Liu (Okemos, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of training a facial recognition system with a plurality of image samples of a training set includes determining an image quality of each of the image samples in the training set, assigning a margin function to each of the image samples based on the image quality of each image sample, cl...