ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,816, issued on June 23, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for face annotation" was invented by Sachin Madhav Kelkar (San Jose, Calif.) and Ajinkya Gorakhnath Kale (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for face annotation are described. One or more of the systems and methods include receiving a plurality of annotated images, wherein each annotated image of the annotated images comprises a caption; cropping the annotated image based on a face detection algorithm to obtain a face crop; comparing the face crop to the caption corresponding to the annotated image to obtain a ...