ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,839, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"System and method for extracting information from partial images based on text stitching" was invented by Rahul Kumar Gupta (Ballia, India), Shilka Roy (Noida, India) and Sujit Jos (Ernakulam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method including detecting respective one or more text boxes in each of multiple partial images of a text-bearing area. The method also can include determining respective one or more edge text boxes of the respective one or more text boxes in each of overlapping partial images of the multiple partial images,...