ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,584, issued on March 25, was assigned to CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH (Winterthur, Switzerland).

"Technologies for detecting crop marks in electronic documents using reference images" was invented by Anshul Garg (Bangalore, India) and Ajay Joshi (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting crop marks depicted in digital images are disclosed. According to certain aspects, an electronic device detects a set of crop marks in a reference digital image and aligns the reference digital image with an input digital image. Based on locations of the detected crop marks as aligned to the input digital image, the el...