ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,360, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Taichung Veterans General Hospital (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Image recognition method and electronic apparatus thereof" was invented by Yu-An Chiou (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yueh-Se Li (Yilan County, Taiwan), Shih-Fang Yang Mao (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Wen-Cheng Chao (Changhua County, Taiwan), Sou-Jen Shih (Taichung, Taiwan), Shu-Fang Liu (Taichung, Taiwan), Hui-Jiun Chen (Taichung, Taiwan) and Chieh-Liang Wu (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image recognition method and an electronic apparatus configured for image recognitio...