ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,624, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for extracting biological features, device, medium, and program product" was invented by Taiping Yao (Shenzhen, China), Keyue Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Shuang Wu (Shenzhen, China), Jia Meng (Shenzhen, China), Shouhong Ding (Shenzhen, China) and Jilin Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for extracting biological features, a device, a medium, and a program product, relating to the field of image processing. The method includes generating an image sequence according to a biological feature image...