ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,031, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to AMADEUS S.A.S. (Biot, France).

"Image processing systems and methods and associated automatic controls" was invented by Hongliu Cao (Nice, France), Eoin Thomas (Antibes, France) and Alexis Ravanel (Noumea, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present specification provides a system and method to process images including biometric data. The method includes use of synthetic images, without use of personal identifiable information (PII). The synthetic images can be used for different applications such as to provide a machine learning dataset that can be used to control output devices."

The...