ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,401, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MARKANY INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image classification method and apparatus thereof based on vision-language model using decision graph" was invented by Yong Hye Kwon (Seoul, South Korea), Ki Jung Bong (Guri-si, South Korea) and Ji In Nam (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the use of artificial intelligence and, more particularly, to an efficient use of a vision-language model. A vision-language model-based image classification method according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises entering a data list including at least one im...