ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,652, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to BrowserStack Ltd. (Dublin).

"Image difference generator with shift detection" was invented by Chinmay Maheshwari (Indore, India), Amit Singh Sansoya (Nawanshahr, India), Shivam Singh (Prayagraj, India) and Akshay Minocha (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image difference generator can receive first and second screenshots of first and second display outputs of a computer program. The image difference generator can be configured to generate a difference image between the two screenshots. The difference image can be generated to exclude minor changes, such as slight horizontal or...