ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,988, issued on July 29, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Tracking image modifications for a digital image" was invented by Amol Jindal (San Jose, Calif.) and Ajay Bedi (Hamirpur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for detecting changes to a point of interest between a selected version and a previous version of a digital image and providing a summary of the changes to the point of interest. For example, the disclosed system provides for display a selected version of a digital image and detects a point of interest within the ...