ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,412, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Image feature combination for image-based object recognition" was invented by Bing Song (La Canada, Calif.) and Liwen Lin (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture to improve image recognition searching are disclosed. In some embodiments, a first document image of a known object is used to generate one or more other document images of the same object by applying one or more techniques for synthetically generating images. The synthetically generated images correspond to different variations in conditions u...