US Patent Issued to JIANGHAN UNIVERSITY on March 25 for "Facial acupoint locating method, acupuncture method, acupuncture robot and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,673, issued on March 25, was assigned to JIANGHAN UNIVERSITY (Wuhan, China).

"Facial acupoint locating method, acupuncture method, acupuncture robot and storage medium" was invented by Qiang He (Hubei, China), Yifan Deng (Hubei, China), Hongxing Zhang (Hubei, China) and Qian Tu (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a facial acupoint locating method, an acupuncture method, an acupuncture robot, and a storage medium. The facial acupoint locating method includes: collecting an RGB image and a depth image of a face by using a depth camera, and generating three-dimensional point cloud data of the fac...