ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,358, issued on March 24, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Object recognition method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Peng Fan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object recognition method includes: obtaining a candidate object set having a plurality of candidate objects; obtaining a plurality of pieces of candidate object information of the candidate objects on a plurality of dimensions, performing feature extraction on the candidate object information to obtain candidate object features, fusing the candidate object features to obtain object extraction features ...