ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,928, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Image matching method and apparatus, and device and storage medium" was invented by Shaohui Lyu (Beijing) and Yi Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided in the present disclosure are an image matching method and apparatus, and a device and a storage medium. The method comprises: first determining an image to be matched, and performing target object identification on said image; in response to it being determined that a target object is present in said image, determining, in said image, a box to be matched that includes the tar...