ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,919, issued on May 6, was assigned to HTC Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Data classification method for classifying inlier and outlier data" was invented by Chen-Han Tsai (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Yu-Shao Peng (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data classification method, for classifying unlabeled images into an inlier data set or an outlier data set, include following steps. The unlabeled images are obtained. An assigned inlier image is selected among the unlabeled images. A similarity matrix is computed and the similarity matrix includes first similarity scores of the unlabeled images relative to the assigned inlier image. Ea...