ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,494, issued on May 19, was assigned to IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY) (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image clustering method and apparatus" was invented by Kyung Hoon Hyun (Seoul, South Korea), Ki Hoon Son (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seung Won Lee (Goyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A design image clustering method comprises the steps of: calculating the degree of similarity between pieces of target design element information selected by a user among pieces of design element information about a target design image and a plurality of reference design images stored in a database; clust...