ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,680, issued on July 14, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Attribute-consistent image fusion and model training methods, apparatuses, and computer devices" was invented by Ang Li (Hangzhou, China), Jun Zhou (Hangzhou, China), Chilin Fu (Hangzhou, China) and Xiaolu Zhang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for image processing includes obtaining, based on a source image including a first biological object, an identity feature and attribute feature used to represent identity information and attribute information of the first biological object. ...