ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,156, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method, system and apparatus for image orientation correction" was invented by Albert Saa-Garriga (Staines, Great Britain), Mehmet Yucel (Staines, Great Britain), Tommaso Maestri (Staines, Great Britain) and Konstantinos Peppas (Staines, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Broadly speaking, the present techniques generally relates to methods, systems and apparatuses for performing image orientation correction, i.e. correcting or adjusting images that are tilted. In particular, the present application relates to a computer-impleme...