US Patent Issued to West Texas Technology Partners on Dec. 2 for "Method and apparatus for subject identification" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,602, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to West Texas Technology Partners LLC (Washington).

"Method and apparatus for subject identification" was invented by Allen Yang Yang (Richmond, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Comprehensive 2D learning images are collected for learning subjects. Standardized 2D gallery images of many gallery subjects are collected, one per gallery subject. A 2D query image of a query subject is collected, of arbitrary viewing aspect, illumination, etc. 3D learning models, 3D gallery models, and a 3D query model are determined from the learning, gallery, and query images. A transform is determined for the sele...