ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,941, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HAINAN UNIVERSITY (Haikou, China) and SANYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF HAINAN UNIVERSITY (Sanya, China).

"Method for determining a penguin population, device and computer readable medium therefor" was invented by Peng Zhao (Haikou, China), Hao Liu (Haikou, China), Yufei Deng (Haikou, China), Pengjia Liu (Haikou, China), Jinmeng Yan (Haikou, China), Zhenhua Cui (Haikou, China) and Song Ge (Haikou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a method, a device and a computer readable medium for determining the penguin population relating to the technical field of image processing. T...