ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,568, issued on May 13, was assigned to L'Oreal (Paris).

"Convolution neural network based landmark tracker" was invented by Tian Xing Li (Toronto), Zhi Yu (Toronto), Irina Kezele (Toronto), Edmund Phung (Toronto) and Parham Aarabi (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems and methods for facial landmark detection using a convolutional neural network (CNN). The CNN comprises a first stage and a second stage where the first stage produces initial heat maps for the landmarks and initial respective locations for the landmarks. The second stage processes the heat maps and performs Region of Interest-...