ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,841, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyo.).

"Methods and devices for enhancement of porous media images" was invented by Samuel Fagbemi (Laramie, Wyo.), Mohammad Piri (Laramie, Wyo.) and Oubai Elagab (Laramie, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for image processing are disclosed. A method for image processing by one or more central processing units (CPU) may include detecting an overlap pattern for a set of slice images of a porous media sample, based on the overlap pattern, determining a set of overlap distances for the set of slice images of the porous media sample, and regi...