ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,666, issued on June 30, was assigned to VITAWARE LTD (Exeter Devon, Great Britain).

"Image processing method" was invented by Archil Tsiskaridze (Exeter Devon, Great Britain) and Philippe Georges Young (Exeter Devon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention proposes a technique for selectively recovering features of an original surface (e.g. boundary) representation after the original surface representation has been converted to a digitised image, digitally altered, and a new surface representation generated from the digitally altered digitised image. In particular, this technique involves tracking the porti...