ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,379, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Automatic image orientation via zone detection" was invented by Ghee Beng Ooi (Singapore), Chih-Hao Kao (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Karthikeyan Krishnakumar (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system peripheral camera analyzes captured visual images to detect a face and analyzes the face to determine an upright orientation. Based upon the face upright orientation, the camera defines a visual image orientation to communicate the visual image from the peripheral camera to an information handling system so that the face is commu...