ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,775, issued on March 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Image processing using datum identification and machine learning algorithms" was invented by Rogelio Fernando Gutierrez Valdes (Tlaquepaque Jalisco, Mexico), Sebastien Gilbert (Granby, Canada), Ryan Paske (Oronoco, Minn.) and Carlos Eduardo Jimenez Pelayo (Zapopan, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving an image of an article of interest to be evaluated relative to one or more features of interest, identifying a reference feature of a known size in the received image, identifying two or more...