ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,929, issued on May 26, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for extracting image feature based on vision transformer" was invented by Young Wan Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jong Hee Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Young Moon (Daejeon, South Korea), Kang Min Bae (Daejeon, South Korea), Yu Seok Bae (Daejeon, South Korea) and Je Seok Ham (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method of extracting image features based on a vision transformer, a method of performing embedding on an input image in units of patches and extr...