ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,819, issued on May 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Identification model generation apparatus, identification apparatus, identification model generation method, identification method, and storage medium" was invented by Kazuhiro Namiki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identification model generation apparatus comprises an acquisition unit configured to acquire the image of the eye and data on an image capture status of capturing the image of the eye, an inference unit configured to infer a feature amount of the eye based on the image of the eye and the data on the image capture status, and a learning unit co...