US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 1 for "System and method of identifying visual objects" (New York, California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,371, issued on July 1, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method of identifying visual objects" was invented by David Petrou (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Matthew Bridges (New Providence, N.J.), Shailesh Nalawadi (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Hartwig Adam (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Matthew R. Casey (San Francisco), Hartmut Neven (Malibu, Calif.) and Andrew Harp (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of identifying objects is provided. In one aspect, the system and method includes a hand-held device with a display, camera and processor. As the camera captures images and displays them on the display, the p...