ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,992, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image classification method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Yu Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Zhenyu Lin (Shenzhen, China) and Jianhua Yao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an image classification method performed by a computer device. The method includes: acquiring an image feature of a pathological image; extracting, for each scale in multiple scales, a local feature corresponding to the scale from the image feature; splicing the local features respectively corresponding to the scales to o...