US Patent Issued to DMRC on Aug. 18 for "Methods and arrangements for reducing superfluous network traffic in distributed image processing systems" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,729, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to DMRC LLC (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Methods and arrangements for reducing superfluous network traffic in distributed image processing systems" was invented by Colin P. Cornaby (Portland, Ore.), Emma C Sinclair (Portland, Ore.), Ajith Mulki Kamath (Beaverton, Ore.), H. Sprague Ackley (Portland, Ore.) and Matthew Laidlaw (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digital watermarking and advanced image signal processing. One claim recites a method comprising the acts: receiving first imagery depicting an object viewed by a camera of a wireless device; using software on said wireless device, retrievi...