ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,436, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Check Out My LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Image stitching" was invented by Timothy E. Getsch (Tacoma, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to systems, apparatuses, or processes for identifying a plurality of images of a plurality of objects, for example one or more sides or "facets" of an object, and arranging at least a subset of the plurality of images in a 2D configuration that may be presented to a user for evaluation. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed."

The patent was filed on Oct. 9, 2023, under Application No. 18/483,376.

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