ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,322, issued on July 8, was assigned to SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY (Guangzhou, China).

"Multimodal image matching method and system, terminal device, and storage medium" was invented by Qingsong Wang (Guangdong, China), Yijun Liu (Guangdong, China), Haifeng Huang (Guangdong, China) and Tao Lai (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a multimodal image matching method and system, terminal device, and storage medium. The method includes: performing self-supervised feature extraction on an optical image and a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image to obtain a repetitive feature point between the optical image and the SAR i...