ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,094, issued on July 29, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for feature transforming and processing based on artificial neural network" was invented by Sung Chan Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Yong Jin Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyung Il Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Young Moon (Daejeon, South Korea), Yu Seok Bae (Daejeon, South Korea), Ki Min Yun (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeun Woo Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Joong Won Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for processing feature information...