ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,685, issued on June 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that output inference results and store management information of images" was invented by Atsushi Fukuda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a memory storing a program that, when executed, causes processor(s) to detect subjects from an image, to classify the detected subjects by performing inference processing to output first and second inference results, to generate an image file including image data of the ima...