ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,529, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to L&T TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Ltd. (Chennai, India).

"Method and system for image processing and classifying target entities within image" was invented by Taniya Saini (Ahmedabad, India), Niranjan Kumar Manjunath (Davangere, India), Ashok Ajad (Gorakhpur, India), Arbaaz Mohammad Shaikh (Satara, India) and Nisarga Krishnegowda (Mysore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of image processing and classifying target entities with an image is disclosed that may include applying a contrast amplification procedure to a Lightness parameter associated with an input image, to amplify contrast of the in...