ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,494, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for selecting face image, device, and storage medium" was invented by Xingyu Chen (Shenzhen, China), Ruixin Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Tao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Shaoxin Li (Shenzhen, China), Yuan Huang (Shenzhen, China), Pan Cheng (Shenzhen, China), Guangyuan Li (Shenzhen, China), Sizheng Yang (Shenzhen, China), Jilin Li (Shenzhen, China), Yongjian Wu (Shenzhen, China) and Feiyue Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a method and an apparatus for selecting a face image, a device, and a ...