US Patent Issued to Ancestry.com Operations on Nov. 11 for "Image identification, retrieval, transformation, and arrangement" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,329, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ancestry.com Operations Inc. (Lehi, Utah).

"Image identification, retrieval, transformation, and arrangement" was invented by John Mead (San Francisco), Dana Jakobson (Hewlett, N.Y.) and Scott Curtis Doerrfeld (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image identification, retrieval, transformation and arrangement systems, methods, and computer-program products are configured to access a family tree of a user in a family tree database, identify one or more additional persons of interest in the family tree, determine whether the one or more persons of interest is associated with an image, re...