US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 4 for "Simulating progression of skin conditions based on machine learning" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,395, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Simulating progression of skin conditions based on machine learning" was invented by Yuan Yuan Ding (Shanghai), Yi Chen Zhong (Shanghai), Jing Zhang (Shanghai), Yang Liu (Zhong Xin, China), Ziyi Jiang (Shanghai) and Ting Ting Cao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for skin-condition visualization using machine learning. A color image depicting facial skin of a subject is retrieved. A monochromatic version of the color image is generated. Candidate instances of one or more skin conditions are segmented from the monochromatic ve...