US Patent Issued to Ancestry.com Operations on Sept. 23 for "Image enhancement in a genealogy system" (Utah, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,013, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Ancestry.com Operations Inc. (Lehi, Utah).

"Image enhancement in a genealogy system" was invented by Michael Benjamin Brodie (Highland, Utah), Gopalkrishna Balkrishna Veni (Lehi, Utah), Jack Reese (Lindon, Utah), Azadeh Moghtaderi (Kentfield, Calif.) and Randon Morford (Saratoga Springs, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-program products for image enhancement include receiving an image and optionally a user request, classify the image, crop image components of the image, restore cropped image components of the image, colorized restored image components, and re...