ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,970, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Method, device, and computer program product for image recognition" was invented by Zijia Wang (WeiFang, China), Jiacheng Ni (Shanghai), Zhen Jia (Shanghai) and Wenbin Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device, and a computer program product for image recognition. In some embodiments, characterization information for a first reference image in a reference image set is generated in an image recognition engine by using a Gaussian mixture model. First reference label information for t...