ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,150, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image encoder training method and apparatus, device, and medium" was invented by Sen Yang (Shenzhen, China), Jinxi Xiang (Shenzhen, China), Jun Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Xiao Han (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for searching for a whole slide image performed by a computer device, which relate to the field of artificial intelligence. The method includes: cropping a whole slide image into a plurality of tissue images; generating, through an image encoder, image feature vectors respectively corresponding to the ...