ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,736, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY (Jinhua, China).

"Face image clustering method and system based on localized simple multiple kernel k-means" was invented by Xinzhong Zhu (Jinhua, China), Huiying Xu (Jinhua, China), Miaomiao Li (Jinhua, China), Yi Zhang (Jinhua, China), Jianping Yin (Jinhua, China), Xiao Huang (Jinhua, China) and Yunliang Jiang (Jinhua, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A face image clustering method and system based on a localized simple multiple kernel k-means is provided. The face image clustering method based on localized simple multiple kernel k-means includes the following s...