ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,356, issued on March 11, was assigned to FIERY LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Interactive three-dimensional (3D) color histograms" was invented by Leon Williams (Walworth, N.Y.) and Thor Olson (Eagan, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for interactively determining/visualizing the color content of a source image and how the corresponding image data is mapped to device colors are described herein. For example, the color content of a digital image can be converted between different color spaces to identify gamut limitations of an output device (e.g., a printing assembly), discover color(s) that cannot be accurately reproduced, e...