ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,077, issued on July 29, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Facial image processing method and apparatus, computer device, and medium" was invented by Jindong Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and an apparatus for facial image processing, a computer device and a medium. The method for facial image processing includes acquiring a facial image to be optimized of a target user, acquiring a reference facial image matched with the facial image to be optimized from a preset face database, and optimizing the facial image to be optimized according to the reference facial image."

The patent ...