ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,741, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image quality evaluation method, image quality evaluation apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Yoshitaka Kuwada (Ebina, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image quality evaluation method to be executed by an information processing apparatus includes: acquiring information about a step at a boundary portion between an image portion, which is formed using a recording material, and a base material portion, which is a ground of the image portion, and a gloss level of the image portion; and calculating an evaluati...