ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,166, issued on April 15, was assigned to SHANDONG JIANZHU UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China).

"Method and system for rapid retrieval of target images based on artificial intelligence" was invented by Xiushan Nie (Jinan, China), Yang Shi (Jinan, China), Xinfeng Liu (Jinan, China), Xingbo Liu (Jinan, China), Xiaoming Xi (Jinan, China) and Yilong Yin (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for rapid retrieval of target images based on artificial intelligence, obtaining a template image and a plurality of known labels corresponding to the template image; extracting an image to be detected from a target image database; inpu...