ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,747, issued on April 15, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for image processing and image synthesis for obtaining a target face image, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Xiaoyi Li (Shenzhen, China) and Mengren Qian (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses an image processing method performed by a computer device. In this embodiment of this application, feature point recognition can be performed on a face image to obtain a plurality of facial feature points of the face image; feature point position offset information between the feat...