ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,500, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Hyperconnect LLC (Dallas).

"Method and apparatus for generating landmark" was invented by Sang Il Ahn (Cheongju-si, South Korea), Seok Jun Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Hyoun Taek Yong (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Joo Ha (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Martin Kersner (Seoul, South Korea), Beom Su Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Dong Young Kim (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of transforming a landmark including: receiving an input image including a facial image of a first person and a landmark corresponding to the facial image; estimating a transformation matrix corr...