ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,446, issued on June 24, was assigned to DVLOP LLC (San Luis Obispo, Calif.).

"Combining preset and auto settings in image editing" was invented by Jeffrey S. Newsom (San Luis Obispo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device that performs image editing is described. During operation, the electronic device may provide, addressed to a computer system, an image. Then, the electronic device may receive, associated with the computer system, values of a set of parameters or settings, where the values of the set of parameters or settings correspond to auto-setting values of the set of parameters or settings and second value...