ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,758, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Attribute recharacterization in individual portions of images" was invented by Nagaraju Buddhiraju (Concord, N.C.), Ramakrishna Akula (Darsi, India), Arjun I T (Malappuram, India), Balachander Kamatchi (Chennai, India), Vijay Kumar Yarabolu (Hyderabad, India), Savleen Kaur (Faridabad, India), Manikandan Rajaraman (Chennai, India) and Lakshmi Narasimha Prasad Dornala (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a memory communicatively coupled to a processor. The processor is configured to generate a tag for a portion of periph...