ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,687, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Line removal from an image" was invented by Saumya Gupta (Bangalore, India) and Arpit Dubey (Bhopal, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may process an image to identify one or more first lines of the image that extend in a first dimension. The device may process the image to identify one or more second lines of the image that extend in a second dimension orthogonal to the first dimension. The device may identify portions of the one or more first lines that do not intersect with the one or more second lines. The device ...