ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,672, issued on March 18, was assigned to Citigroup Inc. (New York).

"Policy based representation based on classification information" was invented by Misty Stiers (New York), Christopher James Byrne (New York), Kirk M. Lewis II (Irving, Texas) and Miriam Silver (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system or technique can analyze metadata from a first set of images using a neural network to identify classification information about individuals depicted in the images. The system generates data based on this classification information, including attributes of the individuals, and compares this data against predefined crit...