ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,211, issued on June 23.

"Method and system for guiding disassembly and reassembly of components of a device" was invented by Mark Aaron Rose (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of guiding disassembly and reassembly of components of a device, is disclosed. A processor captures at least one image of the device at various stages of disassembly. A plurality of components of the device being disassembled is determined in the at least one image of the device based on visual detection of each of the plurality of components by a user. The plurality of components is consecutively numbered in the at least one imag...