ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,688, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Gaze correction method and apparatus for face image, device, computer-readable storage medium, and computer program product face image" was invented by Zhengkai Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Jinlong Peng (Shenzhen, China), Keke He (Shenzhen, China), Xiaoming Yu (Shenzhen, China), Yang Yi (Shenzhen, China), Juanhui Tu (Shenzhen, China), Yi Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Chenghao Liu (Shenzhen, China), Yabiao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Ying Tai (Shenzhen, China), Chengjie Wang (Shenzhen, China), Jilin Li (Shenzhen, China) and Feiyue Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Paten...