ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,175, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING INC. (Londonderry, N.H.).

"Method and system for aligning images printed with digital printer and analog cylinders" was invented by Filippo Salamone (Grassobbio, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for aligning images printed with digital printer and rotary cylinders include measuring a position of a substrate on a belt, capturing by a camera a digital image of the substrate, transmitting by camera the digital image to a processing device, performing digital image processing on the digital image to identify two shapes, determining the positions of each of the...