ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,531, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Artificial intelligence-based object detection method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Yanhua Cheng (Shenzhen, China) and Yugeng Lin (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses an artificial intelligence-based object detection method and apparatus. The method includes inputting a target image comprising an object to an object detection model; obtaining feature images of different scales from the target image using the object detection model; determining image location information of the object...