ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,964, issued on July 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Selective contour reading from image based on contextual image analysis with augmented reality feedback" was invented by Mauro Marzorati (Lutz, Fla.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Carolina Garcia Delgado (Zapopan, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for selective image processing. The embodiment may include receiving a digital image for selective image processing. The embodiment may include identifying a contex...