ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,751, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Training method for expression transfer model, expression transfer method and apparatus" was invented by Yuxuan Yan (Shenzhen, China), Youcheng Ben (Shenzhen, China), Qiang Li (Shenzhen, China), Yang Ding (Shenzhen, China), Ruixue Shen (Shenzhen, China), Chao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Pei Cheng (Shenzhen, China), Gang Yu (Shenzhen, China) and Bin Fu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for training an expression transfer model performed by a computer device, the method including: obtaining a source domain facial imag...