ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,693, issued on April 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Evaluating visual quality of digital content" was invented by Catherine Shyu (Mountain View, Calif.), Xiyang Luo (Mountain View, Calif.), Feng Yang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Junjie Ke (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Yicong Tian (Mountain View, Calif.), Chao-Hung Chen (Milpitas, Calif.), Xia Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Luying Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Wenjing Kang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Shun-Chuan Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, methods, and computer readable medium for evaluating visual quality of digital content are disclosed. Met...