ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,085, issued on April 8, was assigned to Geomagical Labs Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method and system for scene image modification" was invented by Brian Pugh (Mountain View, Calif.), Angus Dorbie (Redwood City, Calif.), Salma Jiddi (Mountain View, Calif.), Qiqin Dai (Mountain View, Calif.), Paul Gauthier (Mountain View, Calif.), Marc Eder (Mountain View, Calif.), Jianfeng Yin (Mountain View, Calif.), Luis Puig Morales (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael Otrada (Mountain View, Calif.), Konstantinos Nektarios Lianos (Mountain View, Calif.), Philip Guindi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Brian Totty (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Tradem...