ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,963, issued on May 13, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image processing method and apparatus, computer device, storage medium, and computer program product" was invented by Keke He (Guangdong, China), Junwei Zhu (Guangdong, China), Hui Ni (Guangdong, China), Yun Cao (Guangdong, China), Xu Chen (Guangdong, China), Ying Tai (Guangdong, China), Chengjie Wang (Guangdong, China), Jilin Li (Guangdong, China) and Feiyue Huang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method includes performing additional image feature extraction on a training source face image to obtain a source add...