ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,287, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to WUHAN UNIVERSITY (Hubei, China).

"Multi-modal remote sensing image hybrid matching method and system with multi-dimensional oriented self-similar features" was invented by Yongjun Zhang (Hubei, China), Yongxiang Yao (Hubei, China), Wenfei Zhang (Hubei, China), Yi Wan (Hubei, China) and Mingtao Xiong (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method and system for multi-modal remote sensing image hybrid matching with multi-dimensional oriented self-similarity features. The method comprises: hybrid feature coarse matching is executed by rapidly extracting the im...