ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,503, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Person retrieval system" was invented by Jun Piao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A person retrieval system includes a person/carrying object image extraction unit that extracts, from an input image, a person/carrying object image that is an image of a person to be retrieved including an image of a carrying object, a carrying object image extraction unit that extracts an image of the carrying object from the person/carrying object image, a person image calculation unit that calculates a person image that is the person/carrying object image after processing is made on the...