ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,044, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Fyusion Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automatic propagation of annotations in images" was invented by Stefan Johannes Josef Holzer (San Mateo, Calif.), Tanvir Parhar (San Francisco), Matteo Munaro (San Francisco) and Martin Saelzle (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of images of an object may be processed. The plurality of images may comprise a first image having an annotation. The plurality of images may further comprise second images. The annotation may be absent from the second images. A placement of the annotation for the second images such that the annotation is configured ...