US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on May 5 for "Identity recognition method and apparatus, and feature extraction method and apparatus for biometric pattern information" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,697, issued on May 5, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Identity recognition method and apparatus, and feature extraction method and apparatus for biometric pattern information" was invented by Lei Shen (Shenzhen, China), Chuhan Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Ruixin Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Kai Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Tao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Yingyi Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Shouhong Ding (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identity recognition method includes: acquiring biometric pattern information describing a biometric pattern of a first object; performing feature extraction on the biometr...