ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,972, issued on May 19.

"Image registration method using fast differential evolution sample consensus algorithm based on historical records" was invented by Yu Sun (Nanning, China), Fuxiang Wu (Nanning, China), Zhenrong Zhang (Nanning, China), Zhenhua Tang (Nanning, China), Zuofang Yao (Nanning, China) and Fei Yang (Nanning, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image registration method using a fast differential evolution sample consensus algorithm based on historical records: 1: image acquisition: acquiring a to-be-registered image and a reference image; 2: feature extraction: respectively extracting point features of the to-be-reg...