ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,300, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Live document detection in a captured video stream" was invented by Nils Peter Welinder (San Francisco), Peter N. Belhumeur (San Francisco), Ying Xiong (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jongmin Baek (San Jose, Calif.), Simon Kozlov (San Francisco), Thomas Berg (San Francisco) and David J. Kriegman (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods to quickly and accurately identify boundaries of a displayed document in a live camera image feed, and provide a document boundary indicator within the live camera image feed. For ...