ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,958, issued on July 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Real time perspective correction on faces" was invented by Yichang Shih (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chia-Kai Liang (Mountain View, Calif.), Wei-Sheng Lai (Mountain View, Calif.), Ming-Hsuan Yang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Siargey Pisarchyk (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ryhor Karpiak (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods related to image processing are provided. A computing device can determine a first image area of an image, such as an image captured by a camera. The computing device can determine a warping mesh for the image with a first porti...